Thomas W. Cobb

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This article is about the United States Representative and Senator from Georgia. For the American Civil War General, see Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb.

Thomas Willis Cobb (1784 - February 1, 1830) was a United States Representative and Senator from Georgia. Born in Columbia County, Georgia, he pursued preparatory studies, and studied law. He was admitted to the bar and practiced in Lexington, Georgia. He moved to Greensboro and was elected as a Representative to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1817 to March 3, 1821. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Seventeenth Congress, but was elected to the Eighteenth Congress and served from March 4, 1823 to December 6, 1824, when he resigned, having been elected to the U.S. Senate; while a Representative during the Eighteenth Congress, he was chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures. He was elected to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Nicholas Ware and served from December 6, 1824 until his resignation in 1828. He was a judge of the superior court of Georgia, and died in Greensboro in 1830. Cobb County, Georgia is named in his honor.

Preceded by Wilson Lumpkin	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's At-large congressional district March 4, 1817 - March 3, 1821	Succeeded by Alfred Cuthbert
Preceded by New seat	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's At-large congressional district March 4, 1823 - December 6, 1824	Succeeded by Richard H. Wilde
Preceded by Nicholas Ware	United States Senator (Class 2) from Georgia 1824–1828 Served alongside: John Elliott, John M. Berrien	Succeeded by Oliver H. Prince

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Thomas W. Cobb at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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