Incuumbent Democrat Circuit Court Clerk Rachelle Beasley was the only member of her party to win re-election for county office ; incumbent Republican Collector Terri Mitchell had no opposition in either the primary or the general election.

This defection of Republicans had a result on the general election: CD-5, despite having a 60 % Republican active registered voter advantage over Democrats ( 139, 057 vs 86, 743 in October 2006 ), nevertheless voted in favor of the Democrat Mitchell.

Mitchell, who insisted on living in his own flat with his wife instead of living with the local residents, was criticised for his apparent lack of engagement in comparison to his Liberal Democrat and Conservative counterparts.

Joe Sam Queen ( Democrat ) was the senator to the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's forty-seventh Senate district, including constituents in Avery, Haywood, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell and Yancey counties from 2007 till 2011.

A Democrat, Mitchell was a United States Senator from Maine from 1980 to 1995 and was Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995.

A. Mitchell Palmer was elected as a Democrat to the 61st, 62nd, and 63rd Congresses and served from March 4, 1909, to March 3, 1915.

In 1994 he did not run for reelection to the House but declared his candidacy for the U. S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Democrat George J. Mitchell.

He was himself defeated two years later by Hugh Mitchell, a Democrat, in 1948.

Mitchell was the first African American to be elected to the United States Congress as a Democrat.

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De Priest was defeated in 1934 by Democrat Arthur W. Mitchell, who was also an African American.

* Theo Mitchell ( Democrat ), 27 %

Parren James Mitchell ( April 29, 1922 – May 28, 2007 ), a Democrat, was a U. S. Congressman who represented the 7th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1971 to January 3, 1987.

Mitchell was re-elected in the 1981 election, defeating Liberal Hans Daigeler and New Democrat Judy Wasylycia-Leis by an increased margin.

For everyone involved knew that the whole valley was a powder keg, and Mitchell Barton the fuse which could send it into explosive violence.

James P. Mitchell, when he was the head of the department, promised to eat his hat if unemployment didn't drop below three million a couple of years ago.

A recent case in point is Mitchell Canneries v. United States, in which a claim against the Government was transferred first from a corporation to a partnership, whose partners were former stockholders, and then to another corporation formed by the partners.

Mitchell was for using it, Jones against, and Sen. Wayne Dumont Jr. R-Warren did not mention it when the three Republican gubernatorial candidates spoke at staggered intervals before 100 persons at the Park Hotel.

Mitchell said the closeness of the outcome in last fall's Presidential election did not mean that Eisenhower Republicanism was a dead issue.

The " original intent " of the law, as co-conceived by Lex Frieden and Mitchell J. Rappaport, was to create civil rights law protections for people with disabilities that would be permanent, would not be able to be reversed or weakened, and would prohibit all discrimination.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

The latter etymology was first suggested by John Mitchell Kemble who alluded that " of six manuscripts in which this passage occurs, one only reads Bretwalda: of the remaining five, four have Bryten-walda or-wealda, and one Breten-anweald, which is precisely synonymous with Brytenwealda "; that Æthelstan was called brytenwealda ealles ðyses ealondes, which Kemble translates as " ruler of all these islands "; and that bryten-is a common prefix to words meaning ' wide or general dispersion ' and that the similarity to the word bretwealh (' Briton ') is " merely accidental ".

Young Mitchell was only 11 when he played on Kilmarnock Bowling green, the oldest club in Scotland, instituted in 1740.

More significant was the discovery of fossilised bones of " some quadruped much larger than the ox or buffalo " in the Wellington Caves in mid-1830 by bushman George Rankin and later by Thomas Mitchell.

However, a similar resolution was defeated by thirty-three votes in the House of Commons on December 15, 1927 when the MPs William Joynson-Hicks and Rosslyn Mitchell " reached and inflamed all the latent Protestant prejudices in the House " and argued strongly against it on the grounds that the proposed book was " papistical " and was a restoration of the Roman Mass and implied the doctrine of Transubstantiation.

Garry Mitchell, a grandson of Diddley and one of more than 35 family members at the musician's home when he died at 1: 45 a. m. EDT ( 05: 45 GMT ), said his death was not unexpected.

" There was a gospel song that was sung ( at his bedside ) and ( when it was done ) he said ' wow ' with a thumbs up ," Mitchell told Reuters, when asked to describe the scene at Diddley's deathbed.

Two years later, the Clam Lake Canal was constructed between Big and Little Clam lakes, present-day Lakes Mitchell and Cadillac.

George Mitchell was elected the first mayor.

Judson Mitchell claims that the Central Committee meeting which elected Andropov as General Secretary, was little more than a rubber stamp meeting.

* An almost shot-for-shot remake of the 1939 production, Destry ( 1954 ), was also directed by George Marshall and stars Audie Murphy and Thomas Mitchell.

The following year, Treasures, an album of covers of 1960s and ' 70s hits was released, and featured a diverse collection of material, including songs by Mac Davis, Pete Seeger, Kris Kristofferson, Cat Stevens, Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell.

This tuning was used by the jazz player Red Mitchell and is increasingly used by classical players, notably the Canadian bassist Joel Quarrington.

The 2007 domestic abuse storyline involving Ben Mitchell and Stella Crawford attracted sixty complaints from viewers, who found scenes where Ben was attacked by bullies as Stella looked on " upsetting ".

Advancing quickly within the company, Mitchell was appointed Chief Designer in 1919.

After he became president in January 1969, Nixon appointed Mitchell attorney general while making an unprecedented direct appeal to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover that the usual background investigation not be conducted.

Among other council appointed staff are Town Attorney Andrew McGuire and Town Magistrate Mitchell Eisenberg.

In December 1986, Hamilton was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Mitchell.

On March 4, 1921, Mitchell was appointed Assistant Chief of Air Service by new President Warren G. Harding with consent of the Senate.

With the party's loss of power in 1977, the new leader, Garret FitzGerald appointed Mitchell to the Party's Front Bench as spokesman on Labour.

Instead young liberals like Mitchell were appointed, with Mitchell receiving the high profile post of Minister for Justice.

When Bruton formed the Rainbow Coalition in December 1994, Mitchell was not appointed to any cabinet post.

Wallace H. White, Jr., class of 1899, served as Senate Minority Leader from 1944 – 1947 and Senate Majority Leader from 1947 – 1949 ; George J. Mitchell, class of 1954, served as Senate Majority Leader from 1989-1995 before assuming a prominent role in the Northern Ireland peace process ; and William Cohen, class of 1962, spent twenty-five years in the House and Senate before being appointed Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration.

* 1996: Mitchell Kertzman, PowerSoft CEO, is appointed CEO.

The first person appointed to the Vassar faculty was the astronomer Maria Mitchell, in 1865.

" Mitchell, a former state director of the ACS in Indiana, had been appointed by Lincoln in 1862 to oversee the government's colonization programs.

He appointed Kathryn Mitchell to the newly created position of GM.

He was formally appointed by Queen Elizabeth II on August 9, 1996 after having been nominated by Prime Minister Keith Mitchell.

The Indiana University Art Museum opened in 1941 in a gallery space in Mitchell Hall under the newly appointed head of the Department of Fine Arts, Henry Radford Hope.

Mitchell served in that capacity from 1977 to 1979 when he was appointed to the United States District Court for the District of Maine.

Mitchell served as a federal judge until he was appointed to the United States Senate in May 1980 by the governor of Maine, Joseph Brennan, when Edmund Muskie resigned to become U. S. Secretary of State.

He agreed to resign shortly after his re-election to allow former Labour MLA Peter Heenan to seek the Kenora seat in a by-election so that he could be appointed to the provincial cabinet by the newly elected Liberal government of Mitchell Hepburn.

The first Australian-( and Western Australian -) born Governor of Western Australia was Sir James Mitchell ( appointed 1948 ).

When Premier Charles Stewart resigned as leader after his government's defeat at the hands of the United Farmers of Alberta in the 1921 election, John R. Boyle, a former Attorney-General, led the legislative caucus until he was appointed to the judiciary in 1924, and Charles R. Mitchell, also a former cabinet minister succeeded him.

A Liberal, he was appointed Attorney-General of Ontario in 1937 in the government of Mitchell Hepburn.

His mother Hortense Mitchell ( 1871 – 1962 ), was heiress to John J. Mitchell, the President of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank and also a trustee of the Art Institute of Chicago who was appointed a member of the Federal Advisory Council.

Roma Mitchell was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) on 12 June 1971.