Samuel C. Cobb

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Samuel Crocker Cobb
In office
1874 – 1877
Preceded by Leonard R. Cutter
Succeeded by Frederick O. Prince
Nationality American
Political party Nonpartisan

Samuel Crocker Cobb, elected November 1873, and served three consective terms as Mayor of Boston. Cobb opposed creating jobs for the unemployed after the Panic of 1873, declaring the idea subversive to our whole social fabric, tending directly to communism in its worst form. [1]

Cobb was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati[2]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ When in Boston: A Time Line at Google Book Search
  2. ^ Address by S.C. Cobb at Google Book Search


Preceded by
Leonard R. Cutter		 Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
1874 - 1877		 Succeeded by
Frederick O. Prince
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