John Ridley Mitchell was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Tennessee

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Born in Livingston, Tennessee

Livingston, Tennessee

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, Mitchell attended the public schools.
He was graduated from Peabody College of Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

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, in 1896.
Private secretary to Representative C.E. Snodgrass 1899-1903.
He was graduated from Cumberland School of Law

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 at Cumberland University

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, Lebanon, Tennessee

Lebanon, Tennessee

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, in 1904.
He was admitted to the bar

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 the same year and commenced practice in Crossville, Tennessee

Crossville, Tennessee

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He served as member of the State Democratic executive committee 1910-1914.
He served as assistant attorney general of the fifth circuit of Tennessee 1908-1918 and attorney general of the same circuit 1918-1925.
He served as judge of the fifth circuit 1925-1931.
He moved to Cookeville, Tennessee

Cookeville, Tennessee

Cookeville is a city in Putnam County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 23,923 at the 2000 census. of Cookeville's population was 30,435, and the combined total of those living in Cookeville's in 2010 was 65,014. It is the county seat of Putnam County and home to Tennessee...

, in 1931.

Mitchell was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Seventy-second

72nd United States Congress

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 and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1939).
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1938, but was unsuccessful for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator.
He resumed the practice of law.
Attorney in the office of Alien Property Custodian from January 1943 to September 1945.
He served as special assistant to Attorney General in the Antitrust Division, at the United States Department of Justice

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, Washington, D.C., from 1945 to 1951.
He died in Crossville, Tennessee

Crossville, Tennessee

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, February 26, 1962.
He was interred in Green Acres Memorial Gardens.

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