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Howell Cobb (September 7, 1815 – October 9, 1868) was an American politician and five-term member of the
United States House of Representatives who served as
Speaker of the House from 1849 to 1851. He also served as the 40th
governor of Georgia from 1851 to 1853, and as
Secretary of the Treasury under President
James Buchanan from 1857 to 1860. Cobb is probably best known as one of the founders of the
Confederacy, having served as president of the
Provisional Congress of the Confederate States. This
line engraving of Cobb was produced around 1902 by the
Department of the Treasury's
Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) as part of a
BEP presentation album of the first 42 secretaries of the treasury.Engraving credit:
Bureau of Engraving and Printing; restored by
Andrew Shiva