his last term. The prohibition forces attempted to pass a statewide local option law but were unsuccessful. After his term as governor had expired, he retired to private life for a time, but in 1888 accepted the appointment to the office of probate judge of Shelby County. Cobb also served as president of the Central Iron Works at Helena from 1873 to 1891, continuing to hold his title while serving as governor. He was also an attorney for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad; he was involved in cotton planting and developing an iron mine, the Delmar, in northern Alabama. Cobb belonged to all the branches of the York Rite Masons and was grand master of the grand lodge of Alabama in 1879 and 1880. He was the only man who was grand master and governor at the same time. He was a member of all the lodges of the Scottish Rite Masonry up to and including the thirty-second degree. Cobb's last residence was Birmingham. His grave is located in Birmingham's Forest Hill Cemetery. References Owen, Thomas McAdory. History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography Vol. III, 1978. Stewart, John Craig. The Governors of Alabama, 1975. External links 1829 births 1913 deaths People from St. Clair County, Alabama Alabama state senators Confederate States Army officers Governors of Alabama Politicians from Birmingham, Alabama People of Alabama in the American Civil War Democratic Party governors of Alabama 19th-century American politicians American lawyers admitted to the practice of law by reading law