Background
Charles Mitchel was born on September 19, 1815, in Gallatin, Tennessee, United States. His parents were John Mitchel and his wife. Charles was one of four children in the household in 1820.
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Charles attended the University of Nashville.
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Charles graduated from the Jefferson Medical School (now Thomas Jefferson University) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1836.
Charles Mitchel was born on September 19, 1815, in Gallatin, Tennessee, United States. His parents were John Mitchel and his wife. Charles was one of four children in the household in 1820.
Charles was educated in the common schools, attended the University of Nashville, and graduated from the Jefferson Medical School (now Thomas Jefferson University) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1836.
In 1836 Charles Mitchel moved to Washington, Arkansas, where he practiced medicine for twenty-five years.
He was elected as a representative from Hempstead County to the Seventh Arkansas General Assembly in 1848 and was the state receiver of public monies from 1853 to 1856 but lost a race for the United States House of Representatives in 1860.
Mitchel in his speech said that the election of Abraham Lincoln was a reason for alarm but not a reason for division. He was elected senator on the assembly's ninth ballot on December 20, 1860.
Mitchel's term of office officially began on March 4, 1861, and he was in Washington at that time, but he had returned to his home in Arkansas by the end of the month. His resignation from the Senate did not become official until July 11 of that year, when all the senators and representatives in Congress from states that had seceded were formally removed from Congress. That same summer, Mitchel was elected to the Senate of the Confederate government meeting in Richmond, Virginia. He served three years in that body and was active on the committees of accounts, the post office, and the medical department.
Mitchel was a member of the Democratic Party. He was an administration supporter who urged more care in planning the defense of the Mississippi River. He opposed the military command of General Thomas Hindman and called for General Kirby Smith to be named as commander of the Trans-Mississippi District.
Mitchel was married three times, first to Mariah Gray on December 25, 1837. What happened to her is unknown. Next, he married Sarah A. Johnson on February 8, 1842. His second wife died on May 31, 1855, of cholera. In 1860, he was married to a woman named Margaret, and they were raising three children.