Biography of tommy irvin

American politician

Thomas Telford Irvin^[1] (July 14, 1929 – September 14, 2017) was an American politician who served as Georgia's Commissioner of Agriculture from 1969 until January 2011. Irvin holds a record as the longest-serving Commissioner of Agriculture in the United States, and the longest-serving statewide official in Georgia.^[2] He was also one of the last Democrats to win statewide in Georgia until 2020, when Joe Biden won the presidential election.

Political career

Irvin was born on July 14, 1929.^[3] A Hall County, Georgia, native, Irvin was elected to his first public office as a member of the Habersham County Board of Education in 1956.^[2] A Democrat, Irvin was elected to four terms in the Georgia General Assembly as a Representative from Habersham County, where he served on the House Agriculture, Education, and Appropriations Committees and chaired the House Industrial Relations Committee and the Go Tommy irvin agriculture.