Bill Cobey

William Wilfred (Bill) Cobey, Jr. (born May 13, 1939) is a former one-term Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina. Cobey was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in the suburb of Hyattsville, Maryland. His father, William W. Cobey, was the athletic director for the University of Maryland from 1956 to 1969. He is a graduate of Emory University, where he received a B.A. in chemistry. Cobey also earned an M.B.A. in Marketing from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.Ed. from the University of Pittsburgh. Cobey originally worked as a bank administrative assistant and then as a chemical salesman. In 1968, he became an athletic administrator. He was athletic director at the...