Jared Irwin
American politician (1750-1818) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 68
Jared Irwin served twice as elected Governor of Georgia (1796-1798) and (1806-1809). He first was elected to office as a reformer based on public outrage about the Yazoo land scandal. He signed a bill that nullified the Yazoo Act, which had authorized the land sales.
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Challenges to land claims purchased under the former act led to the United States Supreme Court's hearing the case Fletcher v. Peck (1810). In a landmark decision, the Court upheld the land contracts, and ruled that the state law was unconstitutional in trying to nullify valid contracts.
