Stephen A. Cobb

Stephen Alonzo Cobb ( born June 17, 1833 in Madison, Somerset County, Maine; † August 24, 1878 in Kansas City, Kansas ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Stephen Cobb attended the public schools of his home. In 1850 he moved with his father to Minnesota. There he learned several foreign languages ​​. Until 1854 Cobb attended Beloit College in Wisconsin. After further studies at Brown University in Providence (Rhode Iceland ), from which he graduated in 1858, he settled in Wyandotte, now part of Kansas City. There he began to work as a lawyer. During the Civil War, Cobb joined in 1862 the army of the Union, in which he rose to the brevet Major.

Cobb was a member of the Republican Party. In 1862, he was, even before his military service, mayor of Wyandotte and a member of the Senate of Kansas. In 1868 he was again mayor of Wyandotte and in the years 1869 and 1870, again a state senator. In 1872 he was a member and President of the House of Representatives of Kansas. In the congressional elections of the same year, which were held all across the state, he was a candidate of his party in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he graduated between 4 March 1873, the March 3, 1875 a legislative period. In the elections of 1874 he lost to John R. Goodin of the Democratic Party.

After leaving Congress Stephen Cobb has had no further political office more. He died in August 1878 and was buried in Kansas City.

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