Arthur Wergs Mitchell

CTL-E-0885 · Person · 1883-1968

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First African American Democrat in Congress (1935-1943); defeated De Priest in 1934.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BVM-005; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BVM-005:person-arthur-mitchell; source research type(s): person.

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govinfo.gov (H.Doc. 108-224) (primary source)

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