Senator George Mitchell

SENATOR GEORGE MITCHELL

Senator George Mitchell was appointed to the U.S. Senate in 1980 to complete the un-expired term of Senator Edmund S. Muskie, who resigned to become Secretary of State. He was elected to a full term in the Senate in 1982, and reelected in 1988. He left the Senate in 1995 as the Senate Majority Leader, a position he had held since January 1989.

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