James S. Mitchell

For other people named James Mitchell, see James Mitchell (disambiguation).

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

• James S. Mitchell at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Jacob Hostetter	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district 1821–1823	Succeeded by James Buchanan Samuel Edwards Isaac Wayne
Preceded by George Denison Thomas Murray, Jr.	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district 1823–1827	Succeeded by Adam King