Bob Irvin (born September 9, 1948)[1] was an early leader of the modern Republican Party in Georgia in the United States.
He was a member of the Long Range Planning Committee in the 1970s, along with Mack Mattingly, Paul Coverdell, Newt Gingrich, and John Linder.
[2] He ran for the State House in 1990, but lost the Republican primary to Dorothy Felton by 227 votes.
He attracted attention in early 2005 by publicly calling for Ralph Reed to withdraw from the race for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia.
He was valedictorian at Lovett School in 1966, and Phi Beta Kappa at College of William & Mary, where he was editor of the newspaper.