Harlan Erwin Mitchell

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

Career

Harlan Mitchell attended the common schools and then completed the military school The Citadel in Charleston (South Carolina). During the Second World War he was 1943-1946 Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Later, he was from 1951 to 1952 an officer in the Air Force. After an interim law degree from the University of Georgia and its made ​​in 1948 admitted to the bar he began in Dalton to work in his new profession. From 1952 to 1956 he was a prosecutor in the Cherokee Judicial District. Between January 1957 and January 1958, he worked in the district as a judge.

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

In 1960, Harlan Mitchell opted not to run again for the U.S. House of Representatives. For this he was in 1961 a member of the Senate of Georgia. Afterwards, Mitchell withdrew from politics. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again. Most recently, he lived in his birthplace Dalton.