Who is George Mitchell?

George John Mitchell, (born August 20, 1933) is the American special envoy to the Middle East for the Obama administration. He was a United States Democrat Senator who served as the Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995. He was the chairman of The Walt Disney Company from March 2004 to January 2007, and the chairman of the international law firm DLA Piper before his appointment as special envoy.

He was also Chancellor of Queen's University in Belfast and the main investigator in both Mitchell Reports. Mitchell is considered to be a prominent Arab-American as his father was adopted by a Lebanese family. He served in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956.

Served as a trial attorney for the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, from 1960 to 1962, and then as executive assistant to Senator Edmund S. Muskie from 1962 to 1965, where he first gained interest in the political world. In 1974 he won the Democratic nomination for governor of Maine, defeating Joseph Brennan.

Mitchell lost in the general election to independent candidate James B. Longley, but was appointed United States Attorney for Maine by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Mitchell was reportedly among those considered by Al Gore as a running mate for his 2000 presidential run.

George Mitchell has served as a director of the Walt Disney Company, Federal Express Corporation, Xerox Corporation, Unilever, Staples, Inc. , Starwood Hotels and Resorts and the Boston Red Sox baseball team. Mitchell was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (on March 17, 1999), the Liberty Medal (on July 4, 1998), was invested with an honorary knighthood - the Insignia of a GBE, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1999 and was even nominated for a Nobel Prize for his role in Northern Ireland peace process.

Mitchell led an American fact-finding commission initiated under President Bill Clinton in 2000 intended to find solutions for solving the situation between Israel and the Palestinians. Mitchell's report was published in 2001. It stressed the need for Israel to halt the expansion of its settlements in the Palestinian territories and for the Palestinians to prevent violence.

He was named special envoy for the Middle East in 2009 mainly to solve the tensions between Israel and the Palestinians.

George Mitchell is a politician- a special US envoy for the middle east. He has held that position since 2009. An envoy is basically a diplomat.

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