Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb

Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb

Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb (born June 8, 1807 in Rhea County , Tennessee , † November 1, 1864 near Bellefontaine , Madison County , Alabama ) was an American businessman and politician ( Democratic Party ).

Career

Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb moved with his father to Bellefontaine, Alabama, in 1809, where his father ran a cotton plantation . In the years that followed, Cobb received a limited education. For a short time he worked as a watch seller and then went on to other trading activities in Bellefontaine.

Cobb also had a political career. He served in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1845 and 1846 . At the time he was living on a Madison County plantation and doing the cotton business. Cobb was elected to the 30th US Congress and re - elected to the six subsequent US Congresses . He served in the US House of Representatives from March 4, 1847 to January 30, 1861, when he had to resign due to the secession of Alabama (January 11, 1861). During his time there, he chaired the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business ( 31st to 33rd US Congress ) and the Committee on Public Lands ( 35th US Congress ). When he ran for the Confederate Congress in 1861, he suffered a defeat. He then returned to his plantation, where he did some farming . Then he was finally elected to the 2nd Confederate Congress in 1863 , but he never took his seat there. His loyalty to the Confederate States has been questioned, so that he was expelled by a unanimous vote as a result.

Cobb died in 1864 of a gunshot wound he sustained with his own weapon while erecting a fence on his plantation. He was buried on the property of the Cobb family.

Web links

• American memory. Journals of the Confederate Congress, 1861 to 1865. Vol. 7. Eighth Day, November 17, 1864.
• Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)