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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: King-Cobb family</a> of Georgia</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 338,260 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. This specific family group is a subset of the much larger <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a> group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset. These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist. <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry King (1790-1861) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Palmer, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/HA-born.html">Hampden County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1790/07-06.html">July 6, 1790</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 12th District, 1825-31; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 8th District, 1831-35. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/07-13.html">July 13, 1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 7 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LE-buried.html#cms00540">Union and West End Cemetery</a>, Allentown, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Daniel King and Hannah (Lord) King; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king8.html#408.52.83">Thomas Butler King</a>; uncle of Florence Barclay King (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king5.html#261.56.68">John Floyd King</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1595.html">King-Cobb family</a> of Georgia (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000202">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406363">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Butler King (1800-1864) — also known as T. Butler King — of Waynesville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BA-lived.html">Brantley County</a>, Ga.; Frederica, St. Simons Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/GL-lived.html">Glynn County</a>, Ga. Born in Palmer, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/HA-born.html">Hampden County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/08-27.html">August 27, 1800</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/stsen.html">Georgia state senate</a>, 1832-37, 1859; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Georgia state constitutional convention</a>, 1833; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a>, 1839-43, 1845-50 (at-large 1839-43, 1st District 1845-50); delegate to Whig National Convention from Georgia, 1844; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/forty-niners.html">went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/sanfrancisco.html#5">U.S. Collector of Customs at San Francisco, Calif., California</a>, 1851-53. Slaveowner. Died in Waresboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/WR-died.html">Ware County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/05-10.html">May 10, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 257 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/GL-buried.html#cms02368">Christ Churchyard</a>, Frederica, St. Simons Island, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Daniel King and Hannah (Lord) King; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king4.html#944.17.53">Henry King</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/">1824</a> to Anna Matilda Page; father of Georgia Page King (daughter-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#349.39.92">John Randolph Wilder</a>; who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#637.89.13">Joseph John Wilder</a>), Florence Barclay King (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king5.html#261.56.68">John Floyd King</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1595.html">King-Cobb family</a> of Georgia (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000215">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406375">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Howell Cobb (1815-1868) — of Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-lived.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/09-07.html">September 7, 1815</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a>, 1843-51, 1855-57 (at-large 1843-45, 6th District 1845-51, 1855-57); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/congr.html">Speaker of the U.S. House</a>, 1849-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Georgia</a>, 1851-53; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1857-60; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. Died in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/10-09.html">October 9, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 32 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-buried.html#cms00241">Oconee Hill Cemetery</a>, Athens, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Addison Cobb and Sarah Robinson (Rootes) Cobb; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a> and Mary Willis Cobb (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson5.html#320.22.65">John Milton Johnson</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/">1835</a> to Mary Ann Lamar; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#170.19.69">Andrew Jackson Cobb</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/erwin.html#338.39.52">Andrew Cobb Erwin</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#135.48.15">Howell Cobb Jr.</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#529.95.51">John Smith</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#936.30.30">Thomas Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#627.20.50">William Parish Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#637.70.47">Joshua Chilton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilweg-dionysius.html#337.45.37">Dracos Alexander Dimitry Jr.</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#568.72.52">Commodore Perry Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#596.91.98">Shadrach Chilton</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#006.59.80">Horace George Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#159.25.40">Arthur Bounds Chilton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1058.html">Cobb-Lumpkin family</a> of Athens, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1595.html">King-Cobb family</a> of Georgia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Howell Cobb (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CC-names.html">Richmond, California</a>; scuttled as a breakwater in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PA-names.html">Cook Inlet</a>, 1966) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000548">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402681">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/howell-cobb/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howell Cobb">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/124/000206503">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8962">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books by Howell Cobb: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/083699163X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=083699163X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Scriptural Examination of the Institution of Slavery in the United States, With its Objects and Purposes</a> (1856)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Randolph Wilder (1816-1879) — also known as J. R. Wilder — of Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-lived.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga. Born in Leicester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/WO-born.html">Worcester County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/03-18.html">March 18, 1816</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">Cotton</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/import-export.html">exporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">shipbroker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Russia</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-consuls.html">Savannah, Ga.</a>, 1846-77. Died in Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-died.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/11-01.html">November 1, 1879</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 228 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Wilder and Lucinda (Washburn) Wilder; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/11-28.html">November 28, 1840</a>, to Ann Drusilla Lewis; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#637.89.13">Joseph John Wilder</a> (son-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king8.html#408.52.83">Thomas Butler King</a>); third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bowen.html#896.99.40">Henry Chandler Bowen</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bowen.html#035.77.44">George Austin Bowen</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bowen.html#440.67.90">Herbert Wolcott Bowen</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#131.55.29">Israel Washburn</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#081.76.93">Reuel Washburn</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eaton-eberhardt.html#466.07.93">William Eaton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bruchhausen-brunner.html#476.85.92">Frank M. Brundage</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rice.html#757.22.89">Ora Ray Rice</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1595.html">King-Cobb family</a> of Georgia (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Rootes Jackson (1820-1898) — also known as Henry R. Jackson — of Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-lived.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga. Born in Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-born.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1820/06-24.html">June 24, 1820</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Georgia</a>, 1844; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AS-diplomats.html ">Austria</a>, 1853-54; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AS-diplomats.html ">Austria</a>, 1854-58; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/MX-diplomats.html ">Mexico</a>, 1885-86; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/GA.html">1860</a>; Presidential Elector for Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/pr1860-meeting.html">1860</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Georgia secession convention</a>, 1861; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Died in Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-died.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/05-23.html">May 23, 1898</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 333 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-buried.html#cms01326">Bonaventure Cemetery</a>, Savannah, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry Jackson and Martha Jacquelina (Rootes) Jackson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/01-31.html">January 31, 1844</a>, to Cornelia Augusta Davenport; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/12-29.html">December 29, 1866</a>, to Florence Barclay King (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king8.html#408.52.83">Thomas Butler King</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king5.html#261.56.68">John Floyd King</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king4.html#944.17.53">Henry King</a>); great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#529.95.51">John Smith</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#170.19.69">Andrew Jackson Cobb</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#135.48.15">Howell Cobb Jr.</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#936.30.30">Thomas Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#627.20.50">William Parish Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#637.70.47">Joshua Chilton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilweg-dionysius.html#337.45.37">Dracos Alexander Dimitry Jr.</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#568.72.52">Commodore Perry Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#596.91.98">Shadrach Chilton</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#006.59.80">Horace George Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#159.25.40">Arthur Bounds Chilton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1058.html">Cobb-Lumpkin family</a> of Athens, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1595.html">King-Cobb family</a> of Georgia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry R. Jackson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/jackson-henry-rootes">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10045">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (1823-1862) — also known as Thomas R. R. Cobb — of Georgia. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/04-10.html">April 10, 1823</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">killed</a> in the battle of Fredericksburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ST-died.html">Stafford County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/12-13.html">December 13, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">39 years, 247 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-buried.html#cms00241">Oconee Hill Cemetery</a>, Athens, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Addison Cobb and Sarah Robinson (Rootes) Cobb; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a> and Mary Willis Cobb (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson5.html#320.22.65">John Milton Johnson</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/">1844</a> to Marion McHenry Lumpkin (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ludoricus-lunardi.html#118.73.06">Joseph Henry Lumpkin</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ludoricus-lunardi.html#856.82.84">Wilson Lumpkin</a>); father of Marion Birdie Cobb (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith6.html#997.75.90">Michael Hoke Smith</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#170.19.69">Andrew Jackson Cobb</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#529.95.51">John Smith</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#135.48.15">Howell Cobb Jr.</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#936.30.30">Thomas Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#627.20.50">William Parish Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#637.70.47">Joshua Chilton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilweg-dionysius.html#337.45.37">Dracos Alexander Dimitry Jr.</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#568.72.52">Commodore Perry Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#596.91.98">Shadrach Chilton</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#006.59.80">Horace George Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#159.25.40">Arthur Bounds Chilton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1058.html">Cobb-Lumpkin family</a> of Athens, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1595.html">King-Cobb family</a> of Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1898.html">Hoke family</a> of Lincolnton, North Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8963">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Floyd King (1842-1915) — also known as J. Floyd King — of Vidalia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/CO-lived.html">Concordia Parish</a>, La. Born in St. Simons Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/GL-born.html">Glynn County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/04-20.html">April 20, 1842</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Louisiana</a> 5th District, 1879-87. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/05-08.html">May 8, 1915</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 18 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Anna Matilda (Page) King and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king8.html#408.52.83">Thomas Butler King</a>; brother of Florence Barclay King (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king4.html#944.17.53">Henry King</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1595.html">King-Cobb family</a> of Georgia (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000206">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406367">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph John Wilder (1844-1900) — also known as Joseph J. Wilder — of Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-lived.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga. Born in Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-born.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/01-05.html">January 5, 1844</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">Cotton</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/import-export.html">exporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">shipbroker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BZ-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Brazil</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-consuls.html">Savannah, Ga.</a>, 1873-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Russia</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-consuls.html">Savannah, Ga.</a>, 1880-1900. Died near Marietta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CB-died.html">Cobb County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/09-10.html">September 10, 1900</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 248 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-buried.html#cms01326">Bonaventure Cemetery</a>, Savannah, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#349.39.92">John Randolph Wilder</a> and Ann Drusilla (Lewis) Wilder; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/06-09.html">June 9, 1870</a>, to Georgia Page (King) Smith (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king8.html#408.52.83">Thomas Butler King</a>); third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bowen.html#896.99.40">Henry Chandler Bowen</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bowen.html#035.77.44">George Austin Bowen</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bowen.html#440.67.90">Herbert Wolcott Bowen</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1595.html">King-Cobb family</a> of Georgia (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/169383013">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Andrew Jackson Cobb (1857-1925) — also known as Andrew J. Cobb — of Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-lived.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga. Born in Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-born.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/04-12.html">April 12, 1857</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">law professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/spju.html">justice of Georgia state supreme court</a>, 1897-1907; Democratic Presidential Elector for Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/pr1912-meeting.html">1913</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-alpha-ord.html">Kappa Alpha Order</a>. Died in Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-died.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/03-27.html">March 27, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 349 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-buried.html#cms00241">Oconee Hill Cemetery</a>, Athens, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson1.html#174.79.95">Andrew Jackson</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a> and Mary Ann (Lamar) Cobb; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/03-03.html">March 3, 1880</a>, to Stark 'Starkie' Campbell; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#135.48.15">Howell Cobb Jr.</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#529.95.51">John Smith</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#936.30.30">Thomas Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#627.20.50">William Parish Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#637.70.47">Joshua Chilton</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#568.72.52">Commodore Perry Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#596.91.98">Shadrach Chilton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1058.html">Cobb-Lumpkin family</a> of Athens, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1595.html">King-Cobb family</a> of Georgia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/26073262">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> </td></tr></table> <hr> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." 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