This article is about the U.S. Representative (1807-1812) and War of 1812 veteran Howell Cobb. For Cobb's nephew who served as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Governor of Georgia, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Head of the Confederate States of America, see Howell Cobb.
In 1806, Cobb was elected as Democratic-Republican to the 10th United States Congress, and he was reelected to that position in the 11th, and 12th United States Congresses. He resigned from Congress before October 1812 to accept a captain's commission in the U.S. Army to fight in the War of 1812. After his second period of military service, he returned to his plantation, Cherry Hill, northwest of Louisville. Cobb died there in 1818 and was buried in the family cemetery on that estate. At time of his death he owned several slaves. In his will he emancipated his slave William Hill, and left the rest of his slaves to his nephew Howell Cobb.[1] In his will he stated:
It would afford one of the greatest pleasure & satisfaction to liberate all my slaves; but such is the present existing state of Society, that by so doing I may act improperly; and it is by no means improbable that it would be no real lasting advantage to them; and I presume that their present condition, under the care & protection of generous & human masters, will be much better for them than a State of freedom.
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