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George J. Mitchell (George John Mitchell Jr.) was born on 20 August, 1933 in Waterville, Maine, U.S., is an American politician, diplomat, and judge (born 1933). Discover George J. Mitchell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

Popular As George John Mitchell Jr.
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Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 20 August, 1933
Birthday 20 August
Birthplace Waterville, Maine, U.S.
Nationality United States

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His wife is Sally Heath (m. 1961-1987) Heather MacLachlan (m. 1994)

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1920

Mitchell's mother, Mary (née Saad), was a textile worker who immigrated to the United States in 1920 from Bkassine, Lebanon, at the age of eighteen.

Mitchell was raised a Maronite Catholic and in his childhood served as an altar boy at St. Joseph's Maronite Church in Maine.

Throughout junior high school and high school, he worked as a janitor.

In the family of five children, all three of his brothers were athletes; though a talented student as a child, he found himself overshadowed by his brothers' athletic achievements.

After graduating from high school at the age of sixteen, Mitchell attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he worked several jobs and played on the basketball team.

1933

George John Mitchell Jr.. (born August 20, 1933) is an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer.

1954

He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1954, intending to attend graduate school and then teach, but instead served in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956, rising to First Lieutenant.

1960

After having performed well academically at Georgetown, Mitchell served as a trial attorney for the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington from 1960 to 1962, and then as executive assistant to Senator Edmund S. Muskie from 1962 to 1965, where he first gained interest in the political world.

1961

In 1961, Mitchell received his Bachelor of Laws from Georgetown University Law Center by attending its part-time program at night.

He has since received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Bates College.

1965

Afterwards, Mitchell practiced law with Jensen & Baird in Portland, Maine, from 1965 to 1977 and was assistant county attorney for Cumberland County, Maine, in 1971.

1974

In 1974 Mitchell won the Democratic nomination for governor of Maine, defeating Joseph E. Brennan.

1977

He lost in the general election to independent candidate James B. Longley, but was appointed United States Attorney for Maine by President Jimmy Carter in 1977.

Mitchell served in that capacity from 1977 to 1979.

1979

Mitchell was nominated by President Carter on July 31, 1979, to the United States District Court for the District of Maine, to a new seat authorized by 92 Stat.

1629. He was confirmed by the Senate on October 4, 1979, and received his commission on October 5, 1979.

1980

A leading member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States senator from Maine from 1980 to 1995, and as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995.

After retiring from the Senate, Mitchell played a leading role in negotiations for peace in Northern Ireland and the Middle East.

His service terminated on May 16, 1980, due to his resignation.

Mitchell was appointed to the United States Senate in May 1980 by the governor of Maine, Joseph Brennan, when Edmund Muskie resigned to become US Secretary of State.

1982

After serving out the remainder of Muskie's term, Mitchell was elected to his first full term in 1982 with approximately 61 percent of the vote against Congressman David Emery, and rose quickly in the Senate Democratic leadership.

1984

He was elected as the chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1984, helping the Democrats regain control of the Senate in 1986 with a net eight new seats and a 55—45 majority in the Senate.

1987

Mitchell voted in favor of the bill establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday and the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987 (as well as to override President Reagan's veto).

Mitchell voted against the nominations of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court, stating explicitly that he believed Thomas’ nomination constituted a racial quota.

1988

In 1988 Mitchell was reelected with 81 percent of the vote, the largest margin of victory in a Senate election that year and the largest majority ever for a senator from Maine.

1989

Mitchell served as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995.

1990

While in this role, Mitchell led the movement to reauthorize the Clean Air Act in 1990 and pass the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Additionally, under his leadership, the Senate approved the North American Free Trade Agreement and the formation of the World Trade Organization.

1995

He was appointed United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland (1995–2001) by President Clinton and as United States Special Envoy for Middle East Peace (2009–2011) by President Barack Obama.

1996

Mitchell was a primary architect of the 1996 Mitchell Principles and the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, and was the main investigator in two "Mitchell Reports": one on the Arab–Israeli conflict (2001); and one on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball (2007).

1999

He was the Chancellor of Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1999 to 2009.

Mitchell also has served as a co-chair of the Housing Commission at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

He is one of the few people in modern times to have served in the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the federal government.

Mitchell was born in Waterville, Maine.

His father, George John Mitchell Sr. (born Joseph Kilroy), was born in Ireland and adopted by a Lebanese American when he was orphaned.

Mitchell's father was a janitor at Colby College in Waterville, where Mitchell was raised.

2004

Mitchell served as chairman of the Walt Disney Company from 2004 until 2007, and later as chairman of the international law firm DLA Piper.

2010

He served as Deputy President pro tempore in the 100th United States Congress, because of the illness of President pro tempore John C. Stennis, and remains the only senator other than Hubert Humphrey to have held that post.

The position of Deputy President pro tempore was created specifically to be held by a current Senator who is a former president or former Vice President of the United States.

Humphrey is a former Vice President of the United States and Mitchell is the only person to have been Deputy President pro tempore who has never held one or both of the two highest offices of the US government.