Harlan Erwin Mitchell

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Harlan Erwin Mitchell (around 1960)

Harlan Erwin Mitchell (born August 17, 1924 in Dalton , Georgia , † September 13, 2011 there ) was an American politician . Between 1958 and 1961 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Harlan Mitchell attended the common schools and then graduated from the military school The Citadel in Charleston ( South Carolina ). During the Second World War he was a first lieutenant in the US Army between 1943 and 1946 . He later served as an officer in the Air Force from 1951 to 1952 . After studying law at the University of Georgia and being admitted to the bar in 1948, he began working in his new profession in Dalton. From 1952 to 1956 he was a prosecutor in the Cherokee judicial district. Between January 1957 and January 1958 he served as a judge in this district .

Politically, Mitchell became a member of the Democratic Party . After the death of Congressman Henderson Lovelace Lanham , he was elected in the due by-election for the seventh seat of Georgia as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on January 8, 1958. After being re-elected in the regular congressional elections in 1958 , he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1961 .

In 1960, Harlan Mitchell declined to run for the US House of Representatives again. For this he became a member of the Georgia Senate in 1961 . After that, Mitchell withdrew from politics. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again. Most recently he lived in his native Dalton.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former US Rep. And Dalton native Harlan Mitchell dies
personal data
SURNAME Mitchell, Harlan Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Dalton , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 2011
Place of death Dalton , Georgia