Stephen Alonzo Cobb was a U.S. Representative

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 from Kansas

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Born in Madison, Maine, Cobb attended the common schools.
He moved with his father to Minnesota in 1850.
He studied languages and prepared for college.
He entered Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin

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, in 1854, where he was a student for two years.
He was graduated from Brown University

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, Providence, Rhode Island

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, in 1858.
He settled in Wyandotte, Kansas, in 1859 and commenced the practice of law.
He entered the Union Army

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 in 1862.
He became captain and commissary sergeant of Volunteers on May 18, 1864.
Brevetted major August 16, 1865, and honorably discharged on September 23, 1865.
He served as mayor of Wyandotte in 1862 and again in 1868.
He served in the State senate in 1862, 1869, and 1870.
He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1872 and served as speaker.

Cobb was elected as a Republican

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 to the Forty-third

43rd United States Congress

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 Congress (March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth

44th United States Congress

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 Congress.
He died in Wyandotte (now a part of Kansas City), Kansas, August 24, 1878.
He was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery, Kansas City, Kansas.