David Cobb (politician, 1748)

David Cobb

David Cobb (born September 14, 1748 in Attleboro , Bristol County , Province of Massachusetts Bay , †  April 17, 1830 in Taunton , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1793 and 1795 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

David Cobb grew up during the British colonial era. Until 1766 he studied at Harvard College . After a subsequent medical degree in Boston and his license as a doctor, he began to work in Taunton in this profession. In the 1770s he joined the American Revolution . In 1775 he was a delegate to the Provincial Congress. During the following War of Independence he served in various functions as an officer in the Continental Army . At times he was on the staff of General George Washington . In 1780 he was a founding member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1786, Cobb became a major general in the Massachusetts State Militia. He was also an appeals judge in Bristol County between 1784 and 1796.

Politically, he was close to the first federal government under George Washington , who has now been elected president ( pro-administration group ). Between 1789 and 1793 he was an MP and President of the Massachusetts House of Representatives . In the congressional election of 1792 Cobb was elected to the US House of Representatives in the newly established 14th  constituency of Massachusetts, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1793. Until March 3, 1795 he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress .

In 1796 David Cobb moved to Gouldsboro in the Maine District of Massachusetts, which would become the State of Maine in 1820 . There he worked in agriculture. Politically, he became a member of the Federalist Party founded by Alexander Hamilton in the late 1790s . From 1801 to 1805 he was a member and President of the Massachusetts Senate . In 1808 he was elected to the governing council of his state; between 1809 and 1810 he served as lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. When the British-American War broke out in 1812 , he became a member of the Defense Council. He was then until 1817 presiding judge on the Court of Appeals in Hancock County . In the same year he returned to Taunton, where he died on April 17, 1830.

Web links

• David Cobb in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• David Cobb in the database of Find a Grave (English)