Samuel C. Cobb

Samuel C. Cobb

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name =Samuel Crocker Cobb


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order =24rd
office =Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
term_start =1874
term_end =1877
predecessor =Leonard R. Cutter
successor =Frederick O. Prince
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death_place =Boston, Massachusetts
nationality =American
party =Nonpartisan
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Samuel Crocker Cobb, elected November 1873, and served three consective terms as Mayor of Boston. Cobb opposed creating jobs for the unemployed after the Panic of 1873, declaring the idea "subversive to our whole social fabric, tending directly to communism in its worst form." [Google books|3rjD6rnCyJUC|When in Boston: A Time Line]

The event of greatest historical interest during Mayor Cobb's administration was the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. It is related that on this occasion many men who had taken leading parts in the war of the rebellion, both Unionists and Confederates, met for the first time in peace.Cobb was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati [Google books|2Tx7Seo5BQQC|Address by S.C. Cobb]

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