Keiffer J. Mitchell, Jr. | |
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Member of the Maryland House of Delegates from the 44th district |
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In office January 12, 2011 – January 2015 |
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Preceded by | Ruth M. Kirk |
Succeeded by | none (due to redistricting) |
Member of the Baltimore City Council from the 11th district |
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In office 1995–2007 |
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Succeeded by | William H. Cole, IV |
Personal details | |
Born |
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
September 28, 1967
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Nicole Kramer Mitchell |
Relations | Parren J. Mitchell (uncle), Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. (grandfather) |
Children | Jack, Kenna |
Residence | Baltimore, Maryland |
Religion | Methodist |
Keiffer Jackson Mitchell, Jr. (born September 28, 1967) is an American politician from Baltimore, Maryland who once served in the Maryland House of Delegates and the Baltimore City Council and was a candidate in the 2007 mayoral election.
Mitchell was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 28, 1967, into a political family, He is the grandson of Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., and grandnephew of the late U.S. Congressman Parren Mitchell. His father's older brother, Clarence M. Mitchell, III was a Maryland State Senator, and his father's younger brother, Michael B. Mitchell, Sr. was a Baltimore City Councilman and later Maryland State Senator. At the age of 3, Mitchell took part in his first political campaign, handing out flyers for the State Senate bid of his uncle, Clarence M. Mitchell, III. At twelve, while attending Baltimore's Boys' Latin School of Maryland, he organized a "Kids-for-Carter" campaign to support then Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter in his bid for the presidency. As an undergraduate at Emory University, he volunteered at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, and demonstrated against the Ku Klux Klan in rural Georgia.
Mitchell graduated from Boys' Latin in Baltimore in 1986, and attended Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he graduated with a degree in Political Science. He received a law degree from the District of Columbia School of Law in 1994. Keiffer is a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi.