Clarence Mitchell is the official spokesman for the family of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared on 3rd May 2007 while on holiday with her family in Portugal [1]. Prior to his appointment as full-time family spokesman he was a civil servant and Director of the British Government's Media Monitoring Unit, part of the Central Office of Information. He had previously acted as the family's media adviser and spokesman in June 2007, when he was sent to Europe on behalf of the UK Foreign Office to provide temporary consular assistance to the McCanns with handling the media following Madeleine's disappearance. He was formerly a reporter and presenter for BBC News. Madeleine McCann (born 2004 in Leicestershire) is an English toddler who disappeared on May 3, 2007 while staying in a Portuguese holiday apartment in Praia da Luz. ... The United Kingdom is a unitary state and a democratic constitutional monarchy. ... The Central Office of Information (COI) is the UK governments marketing and communications agency. ... The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for promoting the interests of the United Kingdom abroad. ... BBC News is the department within the BBC responsible for the corporations news-gathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online. ...
Clarence IV was elected to the Maryland State Senate in 1998, representing the same legislative district that his father, Senator Clarence M. Mitchell, III had represented for 20 years from 1967-1987.
Clarence IV was born on May 16, 1962 to Clarence III and Clarice Elizabeth Bias Mitchell 12 hours after Clarence III was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates at the age of 22.
Clarence IV, the youngest of the 13, was elected President and served in that capacity for 3 years overseeing the growth of that group to over 150 members when he left his position to become the first African-American Vice-President of the Young Democrats of Maryland in 1985.