MacNeil Mitchell
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MacNeil Mitchell (July 18, 1904 – December 17, 1996) was an American lawyer and Republican politician from New York.
Life[edit]
He was born on July 18, 1904, in Lime Rock, Litchfield County, Connecticut, the son of George Henry Mitchell and Harriet (MacNeil) Mitchell. He graduated from Yale College in 1926; attended Columbia Law School, and graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law in 1929.[1] He practiced law in New York City. In 1938, he married Katherine McGowin, and they had three children.
Mitchell was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1938 to 1946, sitting in the 161st, 162nd, 163rd, 164th and 165th New York State Legislatures.
He was a member of the New York State Senate (20th district) from 1947 to 1964, sitting in the 166th, 167th, 168th, 169th, 170th, 171st, 172nd, 173rd and 174th New York State Legislatures; and was Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary in 1963 and 1964.
He was a delegate to the 1960 and 1964 Republican National Conventions.
He died on December 17, 1996, in Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan, of pneumonia;[2] and was buried at the Salisbury Cemetery in Salisbury, Connecticut.[3]
U.S. Patent Commissioner Charles Elliott Mitchell (1837–1911) was his grandfather.
Sources[edit]
- ^ New York Red Book (1961–1962; p. 84)
- ^ MacNeil Mitchell, 92, a Legislator in New York State for 27 Years in the New York Times on December 20, 1996.
- ^ MacNeil Mitchell in The East Hampton Star, of East Hampton, on January 9, 1997 (with portrait).