James S. Mitchell

James S. Mitchell (* 1784 in Rossville, York County, Pennsylvania, † 1844 in Belleville, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1821 and 1827 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Neither the exact date of birth or the date of death of James Mitchell have survived. Also about his career beyond politics nothing is known. He attended the common schools. Later he became a member of, founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. Between 1812 and 1814 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1820 Mitchell was in the fourth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jacob Hostetter on March 4, 1821. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1827 three legislative periods. Since 1823, he represented the tenth district where his state. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson. Since about 1825, the work of the Congress by the debate between the supporters of Jackson and which was coined by President John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay of.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives James Mitchell was still in 1827 in Jefferson County, Ohio down. Later he moved to Belleville, Illinois, where he died in 1844.