Joseph B. Cobb

Joseph Beckham Cobb (April 11, 1819 – September 15, 1858) was an American writer and politician.

[3] He attended a school in Willington, South Carolina, and the University of Georgia, leaving in 1838 without a degree.

[7] As of his death in 1858, his $117,000 (~$3.21 million in 2023) estate included 1,500 acres of land and more than 100 enslaved persons.

[5] Cobb published three books: The Creole (1850), a work of historical fiction; Mississippi Scenes (1851), a set of humorous observations about people and culture in Columbus; and Leisure Labors (1858), an essay collection.

[7] Jay Broadus Hubbell describes Cobb's politics as "typical of the wealthy Whig planters" in that he opposed secession of the South from the United States.