Burton Mitchel

Charles Burton Mitchel III was the twelfth President of the Confederate States. He was the first president to hold the office for more than a single six-year term.

The grandson of Charles Burton Mitchel, Charles Burton Mitchel III was elected Vice President in the 1921. He and Wade Hampton V defeated the Freedom Party's Jake Featherston and the Radical Liberal Ainsworth Layne.

In June 1922, Hampton was assassinated at a rally in Birmingham. Mitchel assumed the presidency. With the election of Socialist president Upton Sinclair in the United States, Mitchel was able to negotiate an end to the reparation payments the CSA made to the USA.

In 1927, the Chief Justice James McReynolds and the Supreme Court of the Confederate States ruled that Mitchel could run for the presidency in his own right, despite his having served almost all of Hampton's term. Mitchel won easily, but his second term was immediately marred by the stock market crash and subsquent Depression that engulfed the world. Mitchel proved incapable of responding to the Depression adequately. Indeed, the many shanty towns that sprung up across the Confederacy, filled with people who had lost everything, came to be known as "Mitcheltowns". The people of the C.S. turned away from the Whigs and to Featherston and the Freedom Party, electing him in 1933.

Mitchel finished his elected term in March 1934 in disgrace.