George T. Cobb

George T. Cobb

George Thomas Cobb (born October 13, 1813 in Morristown , New Jersey , †  August 12, 1870 in White Sulfur Springs , West Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1861 and 1863 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

At the age of six, George Cobb was orphaned after the death of his parents. He received only a limited education and then worked as a shop clerk in Denville . Then he worked in various ironworks. He later moved to New York City , where he was also a shop clerk. Then he began a successful activity in foreign trade. There he came to a considerable fortune that allowed him to retire from active working life and to devote himself exclusively to politics. He returned to New Jersey, where he embarked on a political career.

Initially, Cobb was a member of the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1860 he was elected as their candidate in the fourth constituency of New Jersey to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Jetur R. Riggs on March 4, 1861 . Since he refused to run again in 1862, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1863 . This was shaped by the events of the civil war .

In 1863 Cobb joined the Republicans , for whom he was elected to the New Jersey Senate in 1865 and 1868 . From 1865 to 1869 he was Mayor of Morristown City. From 1868 until his death, George Cobb served as the curator of Drew Theological Seminary ; in 1869 he ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate . Cobb was also President of the Sabbath School Association in Morris County . He died on August 12, 1870 in a railroad accident near White Sulfur Springs in West Virginia and was buried in Morristown.

Web links

• George T. Cobb in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George T. Cobb in the database of Find a Grave (English)