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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriSeth Wallace COBB
(1838-1909)
COBB, Seth Wallace, a
Representative from Missouri; born near Petersburg, Va., December
5, 1838; attended the common schools; joined a volunteer company
from his native county in 1861 and served throughout the Civil War
in the Army of Northern Virginia; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1867
and was employed as a clerk in a grain commission house for three
years; in 1870 became engaged in the same business on his own
account; president of the Merchants’ Exchange in 1886;
president of the corporation which built the Merchants’
Bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis; elected as a
Democrat to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth
Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1897); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1896; resumed the grain commission business in St.
Louis; vice president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St.
Louis in 1904; died in St. Louis, Mo., May 22, 1909; interment in
Calvary Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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