Maud Barker Cobb

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Maud Barker Cobb ({{date|3 February 1872|MDY}} – {{fdate|27 December 1925|MDY}}) was the first woman to hold public office in Georgia. She served as the State Librarian of Georgia from 1904 to 1925.{{Cite book |last=Thornton |first=Ella May |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=auNYAAAAMAAJ |title=Georgia women, 1840-1940 a record of achievement |date=1941 |location=Atlanta |language=English |oclc=297336559}}

Maud Barker Cobb was born on {{date|3 February 1872|MDY}} in Toledo, Iowa, the daughter of Charles P. N. Barker and Charlotte Carpenter Barker. She attended the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, Georgia. In 1891, she married lawyer Thomas Reade Rootes (T.R.R.) Cobb, the namesake and grand nephew of the school's founder, Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb. They had two children, Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (1896 - 1985) and Howell N. Cobb (1898 - 1966). Her husband died in 1898, leaving her to raise their sons. {{Cite web |title=Thomas Reade Rootes (T.R.R.) Cobb family papers |url=https://sclfind.libs.uga.edu/sclfind/view?docId=ead/ms1370.xml&doc.view=print;chunk.id= |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=sclfind.libs.uga.edu}}

The next year, she began working as an assistant at the Carnegie Library of Atlanta. She served as the Postmistress of the Georgia General Assembly from 1900 to 1903. In January 1904, she was appointed Assistant State Librarian. In March 1908, she was appointed State Librarian, and continually reappointed until she died in 1925.

She was the first woman to serve as State Librarian of Georgia. {{Cite news |date=January 8, 1908 |title=Mrs. Cobb Made State Librarian |pages=8 |work=Atlanta Constitution |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/34124939/}}