Amasa Cobb
U. S. Brevet Brigadier General, 1861-1865
U. S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin, 1863-1871
Born: September 27, 1823, Crawford County, Illinois.
Died: July 5, 1905, Los Angeles, California.
- Attended the public schools.
- Moved to the Territory of Wisconsin, 1842, and engaged in lead mining.
- Served in the Mexican War as a private in the U. S. Army.
- Studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced law practice in Mineral Point, Iowa County, Wisconsin.
- District Attorney, 1850-1854.
- Member of the Wisconsin State Senate, 1855-1856.
- Adjutant General of Wisconsin, 1855-1858.
- Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, 1860-1861, serving as Speaker during 1861.
- During the Civil War entered the U. S. Army as Colonel of the Fifth Wisconsin Infantry, July 12, 1861.
- Colonel of the Forty-third Wisconsin Infantry, September 29, 1864.
- Brevetted Brigadier General, March 13, 1865, "for gallant and distinguished services at the Battles of Williamsburg, Goldin's Farm, Virginia, and Antietam, Maryland ".
- Mustered out June 24, 1865.
- Elected from Wisconsin as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and to the three succeeding U. S. Congresses, March 4, 1863 - March 3, 1871.
- Moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, and continued the practice of law.
- Appointed Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska, 1873.
- Associate Justice of the Nebraska State Supreme Court, 1878-1892, and served as Chief Justice for four years.
Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Lincoln, Nebraska.
(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)