Edward Archibald Mitchell (December 2, 1910 – December 11, 1979) was an American businessman and World War II veteran who served as one term a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1947 to 1949.
He engaged as a warehouseman and later as district manager for a large food distributor 1934-1937.
In 1937 Mitchell purchased a half interest in a food marketing and brokerage company and served as president. At age twenty-seven after purchasing part of the company he had accumulated a net worth of over one million dollars which with inflation would be around $15 million.
Mitchell was elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress (January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1949). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress.
Late career
He served as delegate in 1952 and 1956 to Republican National Conventions. In March 1971 Mitchell, who was sixty at the time, assaulted Congressman Hale Boggs, 57, to the floor in the men's room of the Statler Hilton during a Congressional dinner; Boggs threatened suit; Mitchell replied he "would meet Boggs in court or in gym". The original argument was due to Congressman Mitchell's objection to the abusive cracks that Boggs was making about the Nixon Administration.
Death
Mitchell resided in Evansville, Indiana, where he died December 11, 1979. He was interred in Sunset Memorial Park.