McKim Mitchell
McKim Mitchell | |
|---|---|
| Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from the Cheshire 26th district | |
| In office 1998–2004 | |
| Governor | Jeanne Shaheen Craig Benson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | McKim William Mitchell March 31, 1954 |
| Party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Jon Glende[1] |
McKim William Mitchell (born March 31, 1954) is a former American politician, who served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1998 to 2004. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Cheshire County, and served on the House Judiciary and Finance committees.
Openly gay, he served as a cochair of the New Hampshire chapter of the Stonewall Democrats.[2] When the General Court debated legislation in 2004 to ban same-sex marriage in New Hampshire, Mitchell spoke against the legislation by telling about his rejection by his parents and brother, who had not invited him to spend a family holiday with them in over 25 years despite living on the same road.[3]
In the 2004 election, Mitchell ran for a seat in the New Hampshire State Senate, against incumbent Thomas R. Eaton in Senate District 10.[4] He narrowly lost that election, and subsequently opened a sawmill business in Chesterfield.[5]
References
- ^ "Fellow Friends of Pisgah remember founding member ‘Bill’ Mitchell". Brattleboro Reformer, June 7, 2012.
- ^ "Dean will reverse Bush failures in fight against HIV/AIDS". Portsmouth Herald, January 10, 2004.
- ^ "House OKs bill on gay marriage". Nashua Telegraph, April 30, 2004.
- ^ "French, Fernald and Mitchell for N.H. Senate". Keene Sentinel, October 27, 2004.
- ^ "New Hampshire Man Starts Fast with Sawmill" Archived January 7, 2019, at the Wayback Machine. TimberLine Magazine, June 1, 2006.