Charles Sumner Mitchell (November 13, 1856 – January 9, 1922) was an American newspaper publisher and editor.

Cloud Journal-Press from 1881 to 1894, the publisher of the Alexandria Post-News from 1894 to 1920, the editor-in-chief of the Duluth News Tribune from 1906 to 1920 and of the Washington Herald from 1920 until his death in 1922.

He received his preparatory education at Ann Arbor High School.

[1] Mitchell's aunt, Jane Swisshelm, was a noted journalist, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate who published the first newspaper in St.

"[8] While at Michigan, Mitchell was also a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity, captain of the senior football team, president of the Athletic Association, editor of the Oracle, editor of the Palladium (the University of Michigan yearbook), a member of Gamma Kappa Epsilon, and secretary of the Football Association.

[1] Mitchell graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor in Philosophy degree in 1880.

He consolidated the two newspapers into the Alexandria Post News and became its publisher and editor.

[1] At the time of the 1900 United States census, Mitchell was living in Alexandria, Minnesota, with his wife, Ella, and their daughter, Elizabeth.

Under Mitchell's editorship, the Duluth News Tribune was one of the first newspaper to advocate the United States' entry into World War I.

According to an obituary in The New York Times, Mitchell's death was due indirectly to a nervous breakdown.