Howell Cobb | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-07

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Howell Cobb


00:00:59 1 Early life and education
00:02:05 2 Career
00:02:14 2.1 Congressman
00:03:20 2.2 Speaker of the House
00:04:03 2.3 Governor of Georgia
00:04:29 2.4 Return to Congress and Secretary of the Treasury
00:04:54 2.5 A Founder of the Confederacy
00:05:31 2.6 American Civil War
00:08:40 3 Later life and death
00:09:46 4 See also



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Thomas Howell Cobb (September 7, 1815 – October 9, 1868) was an American political figure. A southern Democrat, Cobb was a five-term member of the United States House of Representatives and Speaker of the House from 1849 to 1851. He also served as the 40th Governor of Georgia (1851–1853) and as a Secretary of the Treasury under President James Buchanan (1857–1860).
Cobb is, however, probably best known as one of the founders of the Confederacy, having served as the President of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States. Delegates of the Southern slave states declared that they had seceded from the United States and created the Confederate States of America.
Cobb served for two weeks between the foundation of the Confederacy and the election of Jefferson Davis as its first President. As the Speaker of the Congress, he was provisional Head of State at this time.