Education
He attended the public schools of North Dakota.
United States representative politician
He attended the public schools of North Dakota.
He worked for a railroad as a boy and during the First World War. He left the railroad to become manager of a theater in Montana. He moved to California and was manager of a hotel.
He moved to Jackson County, Missouri, in 1934 and was employed as a construction worker and later became a representative of the American Federation of Labor.
Irving was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1953). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress.
Defeated for Democratic nomination in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress. Labor organizer and later president of a labor union in Kansas City, Missouri.
He died in Washington, District of Columbia, while on a business trip March 8, 1962.
He was interred in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri.