{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Nahum Mitchell | image = Nahum Mitchell, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile LCCN2007675931.tif | state1 = [[Massachusetts]] | district1 = {{ushr|MA|7|7th}} | term_start1 = March 4, 1803 | term_end1 = March 3, 1805 | preceded1 = [[Phanuel Bishop]] | succeeded1 = [[Joseph Barker (Massachusetts politician)|Joseph Barker]] | office2 = [[Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts]] | term_start2 = 1822 | term_end2 = 1827 | governor2 = [[John Brooks (governor)|John Brooks]]<br />[[William Eustis]]<br />[[Marcus Morton]] | preceded2 = [[Daniel Sargent (politician)|Daniel Sargent]] | succeeded2 = [[Joseph Sewall]] | office3 = Member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] | term3 = 1809<br />1812 | office4 = Member of the [[Massachusetts Senate]] | term4 = 1813–1814 | birth_date = {{birth date|1769|2|12}} | birth_place = [[East Bridgewater, Massachusetts|Bridgewater]], [[Province of Massachusetts Bay|Massachusetts Bay]], [[British America]] <small>(now East Bridgewater)</small> | death_date = {{death date and age|1853|8|1|1769|2|12}} | death_place = [[Plymouth, Massachusetts|Plymouth]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S. | party = [[Federalist Party (United States)|Federalist]] | spouse = Nabby Lazell<ref>{{Citation|last= Davis|first= William Thomas| title =History of the judiciary of Massachusetts: including the Plymouth and Massachusetts Colonies, The Province of Massachusetts Bay and the Commonwealth| page = 221 | publisher = The Boston Book Company| location = Boston, MA | year = 1900}}</ref> | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}<!-- This article was automatically created by [[User:polbot]] from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000824. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. -->
'''Nahum Mitchell''' (February 12, 1769 – August 1, 1853) was a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].
Born in 1769 in the [[East Bridgewater, Massachusetts|eastern portion of Bridgewater]] (which would later be incorporated as a separate municipality in 1823) in [[Province of Massachusetts Bay|Massachusetts Bay]], Mitchell attended the local school. He graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1789. He studied law in [[Plymouth, Massachusetts]]. He was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar]] and commenced practice in [[East Bridgewater, Massachusetts]]. He served as member of the State house of representatives 1798–1802.
Mitchell was elected as a [[Federalist Party (United States)|Federalist]] to the [[8th United States Congress|Eighth Congress]] (March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1805). He was not a candidate for renomination. He was again a member of the State house of representatives in 1809 and 1812. He served as judge of the common pleas court 1811-1821 and chief justice 1819–1821. He served in the State senate in 1813 and 1814. He served as member of the Governor's council 1814–1820. <!-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->State treasurer of Massachusetts 1822–1827. <!-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Librarian in 1835 and 1836 and treasurer 1839-1845 of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Mitchell's love for music began early, was leader of the church choir and a teacher of music in East Bridgewater. One of his pieces was performed in the World's Columbian Exposition concerts in Chicago in 1893.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/chicago.htm | title=World's Columbian Exposition Concerts in Chicago, 1893 }}</ref> He was also one of the first [[List of American composers|American composers]];<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.voxnovus.com/resources/American_Composer_Timeline.htm|title=American Composer Timeline|website=www.voxnovus.com|access-date=August 27, 2019}}</ref> his work sold more than 100,000 copies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://virtualology.com/apnahummitchell/|title=Nahum Mitchell|website=virtualology.com|access-date=August 27, 2019}}</ref> He died in [[Plymouth, Massachusetts]], August 1, 1853. He was interred in Old Central Street Cemetery, [[East Bridgewater, Massachusetts]].
==Publications== *''Grammar of Music'' published in the Boston "Euterpeiad" *''The Brattle Street Collection'' (Boston, 1810) *''The Bridgewater Collection of Sacred Music'' (Boston, 1812) * and a series of articles on the ''History of Music''
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==External links== *{{commons category-inline}} {{CongBio|M000824}}
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