David Brydie Mitchell Politician
David Brydie Mitchell (October 22, 1766 – April 22, 1837) was a Scots-born American politician in Georgia who was elected in 1808 as governor of the state, serving two terms. He was elected again in 1814 for one term. After immigrating to the United States at the age of 24, he became a citizen in 1789. 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 African slaves from Spanish Florida. He was replaced in 1821 by President James Madison, who appointed John Crowell.
