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Howell Cobb (September 7, 1815 – October 9, 1868) was an American and later Confederate political figure. A southern Democrat, Cobb was a five-term member of the United States House of Representatives and the 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).

Howell Cobb - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American politician (1815–1868) For other uses, see Howell Cobb (disambiguation) . You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Italian . (May 2026) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Italian article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate , is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must follow the LLM translation guideline , revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation

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