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(June 17, 1833 — August 24, 1878) Cobb was an American politician and lawyer. Stephen Cobb was born in Somerset County, Maine, and moved to Minnesota in 1850 with his father. He attended college in Wisconsin and eventually graduated from Brown University, in Rhode Island in 1858. After graduating, Cobb moved to Kansas and practiced law. After serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, he served as Mayor of Wyandotte (1862, 1868), member of the State Senate (1862, 1869-1870), and member of the State House of Representatives (1872). Cobb was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/C000551]
Member of Kansas Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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