Background
Mitchell, David Brydie was born on October 22, 1766 in Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland. Son of John Mitchell. Came to Savannah, Georgia, 1783.
Governor of Georgia lawyer politician
Mitchell, David Brydie was born on October 22, 1766 in Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland. Son of John Mitchell. Came to Savannah, Georgia, 1783.
He was elected again in 1815 for one term. He moved to Georgia at the age of 24. He had earlier been elected as mayor of Savannah and was appointed as state attorney general.
He also served three terms in the Georgia legislature, two in the General Assembly, and one in the Senate.
Mitchell resigned from the governorship in 1817 to accept an appointment by President James Monroe as United States Indian Agent to the Creek Nation in their lands in present-day Georgia and Alabama. He followed the more than two-decade tenure of Benjamin Hawkins.
In 1820 he was prosecuted for being involved in smuggling of American slaves from Spanish Florida. He was replaced in 1821 by President James Madison, who appointed John Crowell.
Mitchell was born in Richmond, Virginia, United States, United States of America, ), UA on October 22, 1766.
He moved to Georgia in 1782 after the American Revolutionary War to Savannah, Georgia to claim lieutenant Enthusiastic about the new country, Mitchell read the law with established attorneys and passed the Barometer He was elected as mayor of Savannah (1801–1802) and made connections statewide.
Mitchell was appointed as Attorney General of Georgia (1796–1806).
He moved to Mount Nebo Plantation, near the state capital of Milledgeville. He served three terms in the Georgia General Assembly, two as a representative and one in the Senate.
Mitchell was elected to two consecutive two-year terms as the 27th Governor of Georgia (1809–1813) and a third non-consecutive term from 1815 to 1817. He was the last governor of Georgia to be born in a different state.
He resigned from his third term as governor to accept appointment by President James Monroe as the United States. agent to the Creek Indians.
One of Mitchell"s responsibilities was the negotiation of the Treaty of the Creek Agency (1818), by which the Creek ceded land to the United States. He was erroneously accused in the American Importation Case of 1820 of smuggling slaves into Creek and United States territory, in violation of the 1808 law against the American slave trade and resigned his position. Beginning in 1828, Mitchell was appointed to serve as the inferior court judge of Baldwin County, Georgia.
He was later elected as Baldwin County"s State Senator in 1836.
Mitchell died at Mount Nebo Plantation, his home in Milledgeville, on April 22, 1837. He is buried at Memory Hill Cemetery of the same city.
Member Georgia House of Representatives, 1796.