Charles Burton Mitchel (September 19, 1815 – September 20, 1864) was an American politician who served as a Confederate States senator from

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from February 18, 1862 until his death in 1864. A member of the

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, he represented

as a

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in 1861.

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Mitchel was born on September 19, 1815, in

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. He graduated from the

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, in 1833, and from the

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in 1836; moved to

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, 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

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. Mitchel was elected as a

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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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