Charles B. Mitchel Explained

Charles Mitchel
Office:Confederate States Senator
from Arkansas
Term Start:February 18, 1862
Term End:September 20, 1864
Predecessor:Seat established
Successor:Augustus Hill Garland
Jr/Sr1:United States senator
State1:Arkansas
Term Start1:March 4, 1861
Term End1:July 11, 1861
Predecessor1:Robert Ward Johnson
Successor1:Benjamin F. Rice (1868)
Birth Name:Charles Burton Mitchel
Birth Date:19 September 1815
Birth Place:Gallatin, Tennessee, U.S.
Death Place:Little Rock, Arkansas, C.S.
Party:Democratic
Education:University of Nashville (BS)
Thomas Jefferson University (MD)

Charles Burton Mitchel (September 19, 1815 – September 20, 1864) was an American politician who served as a Confederate States senator from Arkansas from February 18, 1862 until his death in 1864. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Arkansas as a U.S. senator in 1861.

Biography

Mitchel was born on September 19, 1815, in Gallatin, Tennessee. He graduated from the University of Nashville, in 1833, and from the Jefferson Medical College in 1836; moved to Washington, Arkansas, and practiced medicine for 25 years. He owned slaves. He was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1848; receiver of public moneys, from 1853 to 1856; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1860 to the 37th United States Congress. Mitchel was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate, and served from March 4, 1861, until July 11, 1861, when he was expelled for support of the Confederacy. He was then elected to the Confederate States Senate at the first session of the Arkansas General Assembly and served until September 20, 1864, when he died the day after his forty-ninth birthday. He was interred in the Presbyterian Cemetery, Washington, Arkansas.

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