James S. Mitchell
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other persons named James Mitchell, see James Mitchell (disambiguation).
James S. Mitchell (1784 - 1844) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Mitchell was born near Rossville, Pennsylvania, in 1784. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1812 to 1814.
Mitchell was elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, reelected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and elected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congress. He moved to Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1827, and later to Belleville, Illinois, where he died in 1844. Interment at Dillsburg, Pennsylvania.
[edit] Sources
- James S. Mitchell at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- The Political Graveyard
 |
This article about a Pennsylvania politician is a stub. You help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
| Preceded by Jacob Hostetter |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district 1821 - 1823 |
Succeeded by James Buchanan Samuel Edwards Isaac Wayne |
| Preceded by George Denison Thomas Murray, Jr. |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district 1823 - 1827 |
Succeeded by Adam King |
