Howell Cobb letters

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Howell Cobb letters

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This collection contains two letters. The first letter, dated June 18, 1855, is from W. H. Hull to Howell Cobb regarding the gubernatorial campaign in Georgia. The second letter also discusses the election for governor. It is dated June 22, 1855 and is written from Howell Cobb in Dalton, Georgia to Governor Herschel Vespasian Johnson. Cobb predicts a favorable election outcome for the Democratic Party, reporting that "we will carry the district by between 2,500 and 3,000 majority."

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Cobb, Howell, 1815-1868

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Howell Cobb (September 7, 1815-October 9, 1868) was an American lawyer and diplomat. He served as congressman (1843-51; 1855-57), Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1849-51), governor of Georgia (1851-53), and secretary of the treasury (1857-60). Following Georgia's secession from the Union in 1861, he served as president of the Provisional Confederate Congress (1861-62) and a major general of the Confederate army. Cobb was born in Jefferson County on September 7, 1815, the eldest ...

Democratic Party (Ga.)

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Whig Party (Ga.)

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Hull, W. H. N

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Johnson, Herschel V. (Herschel Vespasian), 1812-1880

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Herschel Vespasian Johnson was born on September 18, 1812, in Burke County. Like most of Georgia's antebellum political lights, Johnson passed through the University of Georgia, graduating in 1834. He took up the law and established prosperous practices in Augusta, Louisville, and finally Milledgeville, the state capital. Ambrose Wright, the future Confederate officer and newspaper journalist, began his study of law in Johnson's Louisville office. In 1844, the same year he moved to Milledgeville...