Alexander Clark Mitchell (October 11, 1860 – July 7, 1911) was a

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from

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. Born in

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, Mitchell moved to Kansas in 1867 with his parents, who settled in Douglas County, near

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. He attended the public schools, and was graduated from the law department of the

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in 1889. He was

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the same year and commenced practice in Lawrence. Mitchell served as

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of Douglas County 1894–1898, and as a member of the

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1904-10. He served as a member of the State board of law examiners 1907-10, and was a member of the

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1907-11. He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1911, until his death in

, July 7, 1911, and was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery.

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Alexander C. Mitchell, late a representative from Kansas, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1913

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