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Rufus W. Cobb
Governor - 1878-1882
Rufus W. Cobb
Governor - 1878-1882
Rufus W. Cobb, governor of Alabama, was born in Ashville, Ala., Feb. 25, 1829. He attended the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and was admitted to the practice of law in Alabama in 1855. He was a state senator, 1873-78, and served as president of that body. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1875; and governor of Alabama, 1878-82.
The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans 1904
