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Ivorey Cobb (September 28, 1911 – December 18, 1992) was an American newspaper editor, publisher, United States Army major, lawyer, and judge who became the first African American to hold a judgeship in New Hampshire.
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Blytheville is one of two county seat and the largest city in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. It is approximately 60 miles (100 km) north of West Memphis . The population was 13,406 at the 2020 census , [ 3 ] down from 15,620 in 2010 .
Cobb was born to Rose Hutchins and James Cobb, Sr. in Birmingham, Alabama, on February 5, 1944.His family later moved to Jacksonville, Florida.In 1953, at the age of nine, he and his two siblings were placed in the Baptist Children's Home in Jacksonville [2] after his father left the family and his mother needed assistance.
By 1836, when Arkansas achieved statehood, the county's white population had slightly increased and the local Native population was pushed in the eastern part of the county, towards what is now Big Lake. The first county seat was a small community called Cornwall, which was located at on the banks of the Mississippi River, on the remains of an ...
Blytheville Air Force Base was a United States Air Force base that operated under the Tactical Air Command and Strategic Air Command from 1954 until its closure in 1992. The facility originally served as a B-25 pilot training school during WW2.
Osro Cobb (May 28, 1904 – January 18, 1996) was a Republican lawyer who worked to establish a two-party system in the US state of Arkansas.In 1926, he was elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives from Montgomery County and served as the only Republican member in the chamber for two two-year terms.