Colonel Robert Irwin (August 26, 1738-December 23, 1800) of Steele Creek Township, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina was a long term North Carolina State Senator.
The first state senator ever elected from Mecklenburg County, he served as the North Carolina senator from Mecklenburg County in the years 1778-1783, and again, in the years 1787 and 1795, and, finally, from 1797 to 1800, dying in office.
[1] Prior to entering the senate, Irwin commanded the Mecklenburg County Regiment of the Salisbury District, North Carolina militia, rising to the rank of a colonel and commandant of the 1st Mecklenburg County Regiment (Est.
Later, the two again fought to victory together against loyalist provisional units and militia (while heavily outnumbered) at the Battle of Hanging Rock.
[2][3] Robert Irwin held several positions in the North Carolina militia during the American Revolutionary War:[4] Notes: