Howell Cobb
| September 7, 1815 |
Howell Cobb born, Jefferson, Georgia
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Howell Cobb |
| December 22, 1849 |
Howell Cobb is elected Speaker of the House
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Howell Cobb |
| November 5, 1851 |
Howell Cobb begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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Howell Cobb |
| December 8, 1860 |
Howell Cobb resigns as Secretary of the Treasury
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Civil War - 1860 |
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Howell Cobb |
| February 4, 1861 |
Georgia joins Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina, becoming a member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America. Georgian Howell Cobb is named president of the assembly.
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Civil War - 1861 |
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Robert Toombs |
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Howell Cobb |
| February 24, 1861 |
The Montgomery Convention completes the Constitution of the Confederate States of America |
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Howell Cobb |
| November 18, 1864 |
Joseph Wheeler arrives to defend Macon. Along with Howell Cobb, William Hardee and G. P. T. Beauregard, the city had about 10,000 men to defend it.
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City of Macon, Georgia |
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March to the Sea |
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Howell Cobb |
| April 20, 1865 |
Major General Howell Cobb surrenders his troops and the city of Macon, Georgia |
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Howell Cobb |
| October 9, 1868 |
Howell Cobb dies, New York City
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Howell Cobb |
Born in Jefferson but raised in Athens, Howell Cobb attended Franklin College (today's University of Georgia). Cobb was admitted to the bar following his graduation in 1836. After serving in the U. S. House from 1843 until 1851 Cobb returned to Georgia to sucessfully run for Governor on a pro-Union ticket in 1851.
President James Buchanan selected Cobb as his Secretary of the Treasury, and from 1857 until his resignation in 1860, Cobb made a dramatic change on his pro-Union stance. Convinced that the United States was moving in the wrong direction on slavery he became a zealous defender of the South's "right" to secede.
Cobb presided over the Montgomery Convention (Alabama) that drafted the Confederate Constitution.
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