Howell Cobb (politician, 1772)

Howell Cobb (born August 3, 1772 in Granville County , Province of North Carolina , †  May 26, 1818 in Louisville , Georgia ) was an American politician . Between 1807 and 1812 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Howell Cobb came to Georgia in his youth, where he settled near Louisville. After finishing school he became an ensign, lieutenant and later a captain in the US Army . Overall he was in the military between February 1793 and January 1806. After his military service he managed his Cherry Hill plantation, which he had built near Louisville. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Republican Party of President Thomas Jefferson . In the 1806 state-wide congressional elections , Cobb was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , for the first ever Georgia MP , where he succeeded Peter Early on March 4, 1807 . After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation in 1812 .

Cobb had resigned to serve again in the Army during the British-American War . After the war he returned to his plantation. He died there on May 26, 1818 after a short illness. He was the great-uncle of Howell Cobb (1815-1868), who was, among other things, Governor of Georgia, Congressman, Speaker of the House of Representatives and US Treasury Secretary .

Web links

• Howell Cobb in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Howell Cobb in the database of Find a Grave (English)