Clinton L. Cobb

Clinton Levering Cobb was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from North Carolina from 1869 to 1875.

Biography

Born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, Cobb attended the common schools and was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced practice in Elizabeth City. He engaged in the mercantile business.

Congress

Cobb was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses. He served as chairman of the Committee on the Freedman's Bureau. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress.

Later career and death

He resumed the practice of law in Elizabeth City, and died there on April 30, 1879. He was interred in Episcopal Cemetery.