Clarke County GaArchives Biographies.....Cobb, Andrew Jackson 1857 - living in 1923
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Author: H. J. Rowe

ANDREW JACKSON COBB, A.B., LL.D.

   Born at Athens, Ga., April 12, 1857. His parents were Howell and Mary Ann
(Lamar) Cobb. His father, Governor of Georgia, Speaker of the National House of
Representatives, Secretary of Treasury in Cabinet of President Buchanan,
President Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America, and
Major-General in the Confederate Army. The mother was a daughter of Colonel
Zachariah Lamar, a successful merchant and planter of Milledgeville. Mirabeau B.
Lamar, President of the Republic of Texas, and Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, are cousins of Andrew Jackson
Cobb.

   Andrew Jackson Cobb was educated at the University of Georgia and there
received the degree of A.B. in 1876 and LL.D. in 1877. He was admitted to the
Athens bar on August 12, 1877, from which date until the present, except for the
time he was on the Supreme Court bench of Georgia (1897 to 1907), and other
brief exceptions, he has practiced at Athens. From 1905 to his resignation he
was presiding Justice of the Second Division of the State Supreme Court. He was
Judge of the Superior Courts of the Western Circuit of Georgia, which position
he filled with the same degree of success and satisfaction to the people as had
marked his other judicial record. This position he resigned, being succeeded by
the present encumbent, Judge Blanton Fortson.

   His record of service to the public covers a period of a long number of
years. From 1884 to 1893 a member of the University of Georgia Law Faculty; 1893
to 1897 Dean of Atlanta Law School; lecturer Y. M. C. A. Law School at Atlanta
1905-'06; since 1908 lecturer on Constitutional Law and Procedure, University of
Georgia; 1886-'89 member Board of Education at Athens, serving one term as
President, now Trustee of University of Georgia, and since 1907 Trustee of Lucy
Cobb Institute at Athens, founded by his uncle, and now Chairman of the Board of
Trustees State Normal School and Georgia Medical College, Chairman Board of
Deacons First Baptist Church of Athens, Chairman Executive Committee Georgia
Baptist Convention, Chairman Georgia Memorial Communion, Chairman Permanent
Commission Georgia Bar Association, member Georgia Bar Association, honorary
member Augusta Bar Association, member of the Athens and American Bar
Association, Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Alpha, Mason.

   Business address, Athens, Georgia. Residence, Athens, Georgia


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF ATHENS and CLARKE COUNTY
1923

H. J. ROWE, Publisher

THE McGREGOR CO., PRINTERS, ATHENS, GA.




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