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George J. Mitchell
George J. Mitchell
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NameGeorge J. Mitchell
CaptionOfficial Senate portrait
OfficeUnited States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland
PresidentBill Clinton, Barack Obama
Term start1995
Term end2001
Office1Senate Majority Leader
President1George H. W. Bush
Term start1January 3, 1989
Term end1January 3, 1995
Predecessor1Robert Byrd
Successor1Bob Dole
Office2United States Senator from Maine
Term start2May 17, 1980
Term end2January 3, 1995
Predecessor2Edmund Muskie
Successor2Olympia Snowe
Office3United States Attorney for the District of Maine
President3Lyndon B. Johnson
Term start31966
Term end31970
Predecessor3John O. W. O'Leary
Successor3Peter Mills
Birth date20 August 1933
Birth placeWaterville, Maine, U.S.
PartyDemocratic
SpouseSally Heath (m. 1979; div. 1987), Heather MacLachlan (m. 1994)
EducationBowdoin College (BA), Georgetown University (JD)
AllegianceUnited States
BranchUnited States Army
Serviceyears1954–1956
RankFirst lieutenant

George J. Mitchell is an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer who served as a United States Senator from Maine and as Senate Majority Leader. He is widely recognized for his pivotal diplomatic work, most notably as the United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland where he brokered the Good Friday Agreement. Following his Senate career, he chaired high-profile investigations into steroid use in baseball and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Early life and education

Born in Waterville, Maine, he is the son of Mary Saad, a Lebanese immigrant, and George Mitchell, a janitor and laborer. He attended Waterville High School before earning a scholarship to Bowdoin College, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1954. He then served as a counterintelligence officer in the United States Army in Berlin during the Cold War. Upon completing his military service, he attended Georgetown University Law Center, graduating with a Juris Doctor in 1960.

After law school, he worked as a trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice's Antitrust Division. In 1962, he returned to Maine to work for the law firm Jensen Baird Gardner & Henry. His political career began when he was appointed United States Attorney for the District of Maine by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966. He later served as a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Maine, appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.

United States Senate career

He was appointed to the United States Senate in 1980 to fill the vacancy created when Senator Edmund Muskie resigned to become United States Secretary of State. He won a full term in the 1982 election and was re-elected in 1988. In the Senate, he served on the Finance Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee, and the Veterans' Affairs Committee. He was elected Senate Majority Leader in 1989, serving until his retirement in 1995, where he played a key role in legislation like the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Post-Senate diplomatic work

President Bill Clinton appointed him as the United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland in 1995. His patient and persistent mediation was instrumental in facilitating the multi-party negotiations that resulted in the historic Good Friday Agreement of 1998, for which he received widespread international acclaim. Later, President Barack Obama appointed him as the United States Special Envoy for Middle East Peace in 2009, a role in which he sought to revive negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Later career and legacy

After his diplomatic service, he chaired the Mitchell Report, the 2007 investigation into the use of anabolic steroids in Major League Baseball. He also served as co-chairman of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill investigation for the United States Department of the Interior. His numerous honors include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, and the Theodore Roosevelt Award. He has served as chancellor of Queen's University Belfast and chairman of the global law firm DLA Piper.

Category:1933 births Category:Living people Category:American lawyers Category:United States senators from Maine Category:United States Special Envoys for Northern Ireland Category:Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom