Henry Mitchell (U.S. politician)

Henry Mitchell (* 1784 in Woodbury, Connecticut; † January 12, 1856 in Norwich, New York) was an American physician and politician. Between 1833 and 1835, he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Mitchell was born about a year after the end of the Revolutionary War in Litchfield County. He studied classical studies with private teachers and then graduated in 1804 at the Medical School of Yale College. After qualifying as a doctor he began practicing in Norwich in Chenango County. In 1827 he sat in the New York State Assembly.

Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group. In the congressional elections of 1832 for the 23rd Congress was Mitchell in the 21st electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John A. Collier on March 4, 1833. He retired after the March 3, 1835 out of the Congress.

After his time Congress he resumed his activities as a doctor. He died about five years before the outbreak of the civil war in Norwich and was then buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery.