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Jared Irwin (1750 - March 1, 1818) 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. Challenges to land claims purchased under the former act led to the United States Supreme Court's

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