Charles Burton Mitchel III was the 12th President of the Confederate States from June 1922 to March 1934. He was the first president to hold the office for more than a single six-year term and the longest serving president overall. The grandson of Charles Burton Mitchel, Charles Burton Mitchel III was an Arkansas Senator who was selected as the Whig Vice-Presidential candidate in 1921. He and Wade Hampton V defeated the Freedom Party's Jake Featherston and the Radical Liberal Ainsworth Layne. Mitchel finished his elected term in March 1934 in disgrace.