
David Brydie Mitchell (22 October 1766 – 22 April 1837) was the Democratic-Republican Governor of Georgia from 10 November 1809 to 5 November 1813 (succeeding Jared Irwin and preceding Peter Early) and from 20 November 1815 to 4 March 1817 (succeeding Early and preceding William Rabun).
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David Brydie Mitchell was born in Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland in 1766. He inherited land in the colony of Georgia from his late uncle, and he claimed the land near Savannah in 1782 and served as the city's mayor from 1801 to 1802. Mitchell went on to serve as a state legislator near Milledgeville, as Attorney General of Georgia from 1796 to 1808, as Governor from 1809 to 1813 and from 1815 to 1817, as an agent to the Muscogee under President James Monroe, and as a judge and Democratic state senator. He died in 1837.