James Coffield Mitchell
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James Coffield Mitchell (March 10, 1786Template:SpndAugust 7, 1843) was an American politician who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives.
Biography
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Career
Mitchell was elected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses. He served from March 4, 1825, to March 4, 1829.[1] During the Twentieth Congress, he was chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Military Pensions. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election. He was judge of the eleventh circuit from 1830 to 1836.
Mitchell then moved to Hinds County, Mississippi, and settled near Jackson around 1837. He was an unsuccessful candidate on the Whig ticket for Governor of Mississippi and for the Mississippi House of Representatives. He engaged in agricultural pursuits as well.[2] He owned slaves.[3]
Death
Mitchell died near Jackson, Mississippi on August 7, 1843, aged 57. The location of his interment is unknown.[4] He was the author of Mitchell's Justice.
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- 1786 births
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- Politicians from Staunton, Virginia
- Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee
- Mississippi Whigs
- People from Athens, Tennessee
- People from Hinds County, Mississippi
- Members of the United States House of Representatives who owned slaves
- 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives