George Edward Mitchell

George Edward Mitchell (born March 3, 1781 in Elkton , Cecil County , Maryland , †  June 28, 1832 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1823 and 1832 he represented the state of Maryland twice in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Mitchell attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and his license as a doctor in 1805, he worked in this profession in Elkton between 1806 and 1812. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1808 he was a member of the Maryland House of Representatives . Between 1809 and 1812 he was a member and chairman of the Maryland Governing Council ( Executive Council ). During the British-American War of 1812 he served in the artillery of his home state. He remained a member of this unit until June 1821.

In the 1820s, Mitchell first joined the parliamentary group around the later US President John Quincy Adams . Then he moved to Andrew Jackson's camp and became a member of the Democratic Party which he founded in 1828 . In the congressional elections of 1822 he was elected as a candidate for the Adams faction for the State of Maryland in the US House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded Philip Reed on March 4, 1823 . After a re-election, this time for the Jackson movement, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1827 . In 1826 he renounced another candidacy. For this he applied unsuccessfully for the office of governor of Maryland in 1829 .

In the congressional elections of 1828 he was re-elected as a candidate for the Democratic Party in Congress, where he replaced Levin Gale on March 4, 1829 , who had succeeded him two years earlier. After being re-elected, he could remain in the US House of Representatives until his death on June 28, 1832. After President Jackson took office in 1829, there was heated debate inside and outside of Congress about its policies. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act , the conflict with the state of South Carolina , which culminated in the nullification crisis , and the banking policy of the president.

George Mitchell was buried in the Washington Convention Cemetery.

Web links

• George Edward Mitchell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George Edward Mitchell in the database of Find a Grave (English)