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James S. Mitchell (1784–1844) was an American politician who served three terms as member of the
U.S. House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they ...
from Pennsylvania from 1821 to 1827.


Biography

Mitchell was born near
Rossville, Pennsylvania Rossville is an unincorporated community in Warrington Township in York County, Pennsylvania, United States. Rossville is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 74, Pennsylvania Route 177, and Old York Road northeast of Wellsville ...
, in 1784. He was a member of the
Pennsylvania House of Representatives The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two-year terms from single member districts. It ...
from 1812 to 1814.


Congress

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.


Death and burial

He moved to Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1827, and later to
Belleville, Illinois Belleville is a city and the county seat of St. Clair County, Illinois, coterminous with the now defunct Belleville Township. It is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Belleville and the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows. The p ...
, where he died in 1844. Interment at Dillsburg, Pennsylvania.


Sources


The Political Graveyard
1784 births 1844 deaths Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Politicians from York County, Pennsylvania Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century Pennsylvania politicians 19th-century American legislators {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub