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CSA President

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Cobb was never the President of the Confederate States. Please see the discussion at Talk:President of the Confederate States of America. --JW1805 (Talk) 16:36, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot-created subpage

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A temporary subpage at User:Polbot/fjc/Howell Cobb was automatically created by a perl script, based on this article at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. The subpage should either be merged into this article, or moved and disambiguated. Polbot (talk) 17:45, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Any relation?

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Any relation to Susan Cobb, who married John Milton, Governor of Florida in about 1830? Valetude (talk) 22:17, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Howell Cobb

Howell Cobb (September 7, 1815 – October 9, 1868) was an American politician and five-term member of the United States House of Representatives who served as Speaker of the House from 1849 to 1851. He also served as the 40th governor of Georgia from 1851 to 1853, and as Secretary of the Treasury under President James Buchanan from 1857 to 1860. Cobb is probably best known as one of the founders of the Confederacy, having served as president of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States. This line engraving of Cobb was produced around 1902 by the Department of the Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) as part of a BEP presentation album of the first 42 secretaries of the treasury.

Engraving credit: Bureau of Engraving and Printing; restored by Andrew Shiva