James S. Mitchell

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.

Sources

  • United States Congress. "James S. Mitchell (id: M000816)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  • The Political Graveyard


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