Charles Burton Mitchel

Charles Burton Mitchel (1815-1864) was a Senator from Arkansas originally elected to represent that state in the United States Senate in 1860. However, after Arkansas seceded he almost immediately resigned and defected to the Confederate States, where he represented Arkansas in the Senate through the War of Secession and for the remainder of his life. He was the founder of an Arkansas political dynasty, and one of his grandsons, Burton Mitchel, became the country's first multi-term President.