Raymond Mitchell (October 6, 1897,
Mitchell was educated at Grandview, Manitoba and worked as a farmer and rancher. He served on the Board of Grain Commissioners of Canada, as a reeve for Grandview and was president of the Union of Manitoba Municipalities.
He first campaigned for the Manitoba legislature in the 1941 provincial election, but lost to Stanley Fox of the Social Credit League by over 600 votes in the Gilbert Plains constituency. Both Mitchell and Fox were supporters of the coalition government led by Premier John Bracken. Mitchell defeated Fox for the coalition nomination in the 1949 provincial election, and went on to defeat CCF candidate Jacob Schulz by 330 votes on election day.
Mitchell was re-elected in the 1953 election,