Burton Mitchel

Burton Mitchel was the Whig vice-presidential candidate in the 1921 C.S. Presidential election. He and Wade Hampton V won the election over Jake Featherston and Ainsworth Layne.

In June 1922, Hampton was assassinated at a rally in Birmingham. Mitchel assumed the presidency, where he ended reparation payments with U.S. approval.

The Confederate Supreme Court ruled that Mitchel could run for the presidency in his own right in 1927, despite serving almost all of Hampton's term. Mitchel won easily, but was later blamed for the Business Collapse that had also hit the United States. Many "Mitcheltowns" sprung up across the Confederacy, filled with people who had lost everything.

Mitchel left office in March 1934, and was succeeded by Featherston, whose Freedom Party was about to begin to gain total control over the Confederate States of America.