Robert James Mitchell

Robert James Mitchell was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.
After becoming a captain during World War II, Mitchell worked as a sales representative. He was elected to Lurgan Borough Council in 1957 for the Ulster Unionist Party, serving until its abolition in 1973. He was elected in the 1969 [Northern Ireland general election] in Armagh (Northern [Ireland Parliament">Armagh (Assembly constituency)">Armagh (Northern [Ireland Parliament constituency)|North Armagh], serving from 1971 until 1972 as Secretary of the 1966 Committee of backbenchers. He was expelled from the Ulster Unionist Parliamentary Party in January 1972 when he voted for a Democratic Unionist Party censure motion opposing a ban on certain processions planned for 12 July.
The Parliament was prorogued in 1972 and abolished the following year. Mitchell stood in Armagh for the 1973 [Northern Ireland Assembly election|1973 Assembly], but was not elected. In 1989, he joined the Conservatives in Northern Ireland, and became Vice-Chairman of the party's East Londonderry association.