Cobb County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia,located in the Atlanta metropolitan area in the north central portion of the state. As of 2020 Census,the population was 766,149. It is the state's third most populous county,after Fulton and Gwinnett counties. Its county seat is Marietta;its largest city is Mableton.
Mableton is a city in Cobb County,Georgia,United States. Voters of the unincorporated area of Mableton approved a referendum to incorporate on November 8,2022,and six council members were elected on March 21,2023,with Michael Owens elected as mayor of Mableton in the 2023 Mableton mayoral election. According to the 2020 census,the census-designated area Mableton had a population of 37,115;the city has more. Upon Brookhaven's cityhood in December 2012,Mableton was previously the largest unincorporated CDP in Metro Atlanta. With boundaries described in Appendix A of House Bill 839,Mableton is the largest city in Cobb County in terms of population and includes historical Mableton,along with the Six Flags area,areas of unincorporated Smyrna,and parts of unincorporated South Cobb.
Marietta is a city in and the county seat of Cobb County,Georgia,United States. At the 2020 census,the city had a population of 60,972. The 2019 estimate was 60,867,making it one of Atlanta's largest suburbs. Marietta is the fourth largest of the principal cities by population of the Atlanta metropolitan area.
CobbLinc is the bus public transit system in Cobb County,Georgia,one of metro Atlanta's three most populous suburban counties.
John Hardy Isakson was an American businessman and politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia from 2005 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served in the Georgia legislature and the United States House of Representatives.
Roy Eugene Barnes is an American attorney and politician who served as the 80th governor of Georgia from 1999 to 2003. As of 2023,he is the most recent Democrat to serve as governor of Georgia.
The Georgia State University College of Law is a law school located in downtown Atlanta,Georgia. Founded in 1982,it is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools.
George Washington "Buddy" Darden III is an American politician and lawyer from Georgia. He served in the state house and then for more than five terms as Congressman from Georgia.
George Thornewell Smith was an American Democratic Party politician and jurist from the state of Georgia. The sixth Lieutenant Governor,state legislator,Speaker of the State House of Representatives,was the only person in Georgia to win contested elections in all three branches of state government - legislative,executive,and judicial.
The Marietta Daily Journal (MDJ) is a daily newspaper published in Marietta,Georgia. It is the primary local newspaper of Cobb County,Georgia,second only to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution,which covers all of metro Atlanta,and previously most of north Georgia.
Metro Atlanta,designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Roswell metropolitan statistical area,is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Georgia and the eighth-largest in the United States. Its economic,cultural,and demographic center is Atlanta,and its total population was 6,237,435 in the 2022 estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau.
East Cobb is an unincorporated community in Cobb County,Georgia,United States,with a population of 164,055 people. It is an affluent northern suburb of Atlanta.
Samuel Scott Olens is an American lawyer and politician who served as Attorney General of Georgia. Olens was elected Georgia AG in 2010,resigning on November 1,2016,following his appointment as President of Kennesaw State University. He subsequently resigned as KSU's president on February 15,2018 and then served as counsel for Dentons global law firm. He was named partner Dentons' Public Policy practice in 2021.
The Cobb County School District (CCSD) is the school district which operates public schools in Cobb County,Georgia,United States. The school district includes all of Cobb County except for the Marietta City Schools,though a number of schools in unincorporated parts of the county have Marietta addresses. It is the second-largest school system in Georgia and 23rd largest in the United States. The district is the county's largest employer and one of the largest in the US. All Cobb County schools are accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS),and the district is among the first to have earned district-wide accreditation. The superintendent of the school district is Chris Ragsdale.
The 2016 United States Senate election in Georgia was held November 8,2016,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Georgia,concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. The primary election for the Republican and Democratic parties took place on May 24,2016.
James Vinson Carmichael was member of the Georgia General Assembly,an attorney,business executive,and candidate for Governor of Georgia.
Kenneth Owen Nix was an American judge and politician. He served as a Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives for the 20-3 district from 1973 to 1982 and as a judge on the state superior court from 1995 until his retirement in 2010,when he was chief judge.
Michael Owens is an American politician serving as mayor of Mableton,Georgia,the largest city in Cobb County since defeating Aaron Carman in the runoff of the 2023 Mableton mayoral election. He previously served as Chair of the Cobb County Democratic Committee from 2016 to 2019.
Homer Alonzo Glore (1874–1944) was an American medical doctor and politician who served as the first mayor of Mableton,Georgia when it was incorporated in 1912. He also served as postmaster of the Mableton Drug Store and Post Office from 1921 to 1938.
The 2023 Mableton mayoral election took place on March 21,2023 in the Atlanta suburb of Mableton,Georgia,with a runoff held on April 18,2023 as no candidate got 50% of the vote in the general election. Aaron Carman gained the most votes in the first round but lost the runoff to former Cobb County Democratic Committee chair Michael Owens who became the first mayor of Mableton,Georgia in over 100 years. Despite the runoff election being described as historic,only 6,113 votes were cast and voter turnout remained low at 12.9% of 47,200 registered voters.
