Fielden William "Billy" Mitts[2] (1919–1973) was an American attorney and Democratic Party politician from Mississippi.
[3] He attended Mississippi State University, where he was a cheerleader and the student body president.
[9] He is known for his role in trying to prevent the 1962–63 Mississippi State Bulldogs men's basketball team from playing in the NCAA tournament against the Loyola Ramblers, a team from Chicago which featured four black starting players.
[11] However, this injunction was never served before the team's plane departed for the game, and it was later dissolved for lacking legal basis.
[3] He had one son and three daughters, including Chandler Mitts, who ran for the Mississippi House of Representatives twice in the 1990s.