Amasa Cobb
Source: "A Biographical Congressional Directory From the 1st ( 1774) to the 62nd (1911) Congress"; By United States Congress; Publ. 1918; Transcribed for Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack

Cobb, Amasa, a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Crawford County, Ill., September 27, 1823; attended the public schools; went to Wisconsin Territory in 1842 and engaged in lead mining; served in the Mexican War as a private in the United States Army; studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced; district attorney 1850-1854; member of the state senate 1855-1856; adjutant general 1855-1858; member of the state house of representatives 1860-1861, and served as speaker the last year; entered the Union Army as colonel of the fifth Wisconsin infantry July 12, 1861; colonel forty-third Wisconsin infantry September 29, 1864; brevet brigadier general March 13, 1865, for gallant and distinguished services at the battles of Williamsburg and Goldin's farm, Va., and Antietam, Md.; mustered out June 24, 1865; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1871); moved to Lincoln, Nebr., and became a justice of the supreme court of the state; died in Los Angeles, Cal., July 5, 1905.