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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Georgia / USHowell COBB
(1815-1868)
COBB, Howell, (nephew of
Howell Cobb [1772-1818]), a Representative from Georgia; born at
“Cherry Hill,” Jefferson County, Ga., September 7,
1815; moved with his father to Athens, Ga., in childhood; was
graduated from Franklin College (then a part of the University of
Georgia), at Athens in 1834; studied law; was admitted to the bar
and commenced practice in Athens, Ga., in 1836; solicitor general
of the western judicial circuit of Georgia 1837-1841; elected as a
Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and to the three succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1851); chairman, Committee on
Mileage (Twenty-eighth Congress); Speaker of the House of
Representatives (Thirty-first Congress); Governor of Georgia
1851-1853; elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4,
1855-March 3, 1857); Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of
President Buchanan and served from March 6, 1857, to December 10,
1860, when he resigned; chairman of the convention of delegates
from the seceded States which assembled in Montgomery, Ala., on
February 24, 1861, to form a Confederate Government; appointed a
brigadier general in the Confederate Army February 13, 1862, and
promoted to major general September 9, 1863; surrendered at Macon,
Ga., April 20, 1864; died in New York City October 9, 1868;
interment in Oconee Cemetery, Athens, Clarke County, Ga.
Bibliography
Simpson, John E. Howell Cobb: The Politics of Ambition.
Chicago: Adams Press, 1973; Simpson, John E. “Prelude to
Compromise: Howell Cobb and the House Speakership Battle of
1849.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 58 (Winter 1974):
389-99.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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