John Joseph Mitchell

John Joseph Mitchell ( born May 9, 1873 in Marlborough, Massachusetts, † September 13, 1925 ) was an American politician. Between 1910 and 1915 he represented two times the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Mitchell attended the public schools of his native and Boston College. After a subsequent law degree from Albany Law School and was admitted as an attorney of his 1901 he began to work in Marlborough in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1903 and 1906 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts; in the years 1907 and 1908 he was a member of the State Senate.

After the death of Mr Charles Q. Tirrell Mitchell was in the overdue election for the fourth seat from Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 8 November 1910. Since he has not been confirmed in 1910, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1911. Following the resignation of Mr John Wingate Weeks Mitchell was elected to Congress again in the 13th electoral district of his state, where he was able to complete almost an entire legislative period between 15 April 1913 and 3 March 1915. In 1914 he was not re-elected again.

During the First World War, Mitchell was U.S. Marshal for Massachusetts. He then spent 1919-1921 the tax authority in that State. He then practiced law in Boston.