Gilbert, Frank T.  "Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and
Garfield Counties, Washington Territory; and Umatilla County, Oregon." Portland,
OR: Print & Lithographing House of A.  G.  Walling, 1882.  p. a27.

JAMES D.  MIX

	was a prominent attorney of Walla Walla, and for years one of the leaders in
the Democratic party of the Territory.  He was frequently their standard bearer,
and carried it bravely both in victory and defeat.  He was born in Georgetown
Va., in 1818, and soon after became a resident of New Orleans with his parents.
There he entered and practiced the legal profession until he was thirty years of
age.  During the Mexican war he was engaged in contracting in that country.  At
its close he returned to New Orleans and was married, going to California with
his wife in the early clays of the gold excitement.  He practiced law for two
years in San Francisco, and then went to the interior of the State and settled
at Shasta.  For ten or twelve years he practiced law there, a portion of the
time serving as District Attorney and Probate Judge.  In 1863 he went to Walla
Walla and there resided till his death, June 6, 1881.  He twice sat in the
Legislature, and in 1870 was the Democratic nominee for Delegate to Congress. He
was for a time City Attorney for Walla Walla.

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Submitted to the WA.  Bios Project in February 2007 by Diana Smith.

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