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{{Infobox officeholder
{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Robert L. "Bob" Cohee
|name=Robert Leroy "Bob" Cohee
|office=Chair of the [[Arkansas]] [[Republican Party]]
|office=Chairman of the [[Arkansas]] [[Republican Party]]
|term_start=March 1982
|term_start=March 1982
|term_end=December 1982
|term_end=December 1982
|death_date=February 13, 2013 (aged 74)
|death_date=February 13, 2013 (aged 74)
|death_place=Cotter, Baxter County,<br>
|death_place=Cotter, Baxter County,<br>
[[Arkansas]]
|death_cause=
|death_cause=
|resting_place=Not revealed
|resting_place=Notgiven in obituary
|residence=Cotter, Arkansas
|residence=Cotter, Arkansas
|spouse=Patricia Ann Miller Cohee (married 1956-2013, his death)
|spouse=Patricia Ann Miller Cohee (married 1956-2013, his death)
|children=Dan, David, and Don Cohee<br>
|children=Dan, David, and Don Cohee<br>
Seven grandchildren <br>
Seven grandchildren<br>
Parents:<br>
Parents:<br>
Russell and Pearl Taylor Cohee
Russell and Pearl Taylor Cohee
|occupation=[[Real estate]] [[business]]man
|occupation=[[Real estate]] [[business]]man<br>
[[United States Navy]] service}}
}}
'''Robert L. Cohee''', known as '''Bob Cohee''' (August 17, 1938 – February 14, 2013), was an [[United States|American]] [[business]]man and [[politician]] from Baxter County in northern [[Arkansas]].
'''Robert Leroy Cohee''', known as '''Bob Cohee''' (August 17, 1938 – February 14, 2013), was an [[United States|American]] [[business]]man and [[politician]] from Baxter County in northern [[Arkansas]].
==Biography==
==Biography==
===Background===
===Background===
As Cohee left the chairmanship without fanfare, the party named William Thomas "Tom" Kelly, Jr. (1942-2011) of Little Rock as its treasurer. Kelly had been an unsuccessful [[Moderate Republican]] nominee for the [[U.S. Senate]] in 1978 against the Democrat David Hampton Pryor. In that race, Kelly had lost all seventy-five counties.<ref>Arkansas Secretary of State, Election results, November 7, 1978.</ref> His father, William "Bill" Kelly, Sr., would later become another in a string of short-term Arkansas state party chairman during a time when the party continued to lose most elections. He stepped down in favor of another party regular, Len Everette Blaylock, Sr. (1918-2012), the 1972 [[governor|gubernatorial]] nominee from Perry County, who had been badly defeated by [[Dale Bumpers]].
As Cohee left the chairmanship without fanfare, the party named William Thomas "Tom" Kelly, Jr. (1942-2011) of Little Rock as its treasurer. Kelly had been an unsuccessful [[Moderate Republican]] nominee for the [[U.S. Senate]] in 1978 against the Democrat David Hampton Pryor. In that race, Kelly had lost all seventy-five counties.<ref>Arkansas Secretary of State, Election results, November 7, 1978.</ref> His father, William "Bill" Kelly, Sr., would later become another in a string of short-term Arkansas state party chairman during a time when the party continued to lose most elections. He stepped down in favor of another party regular, Len Everette Blaylock, Sr. (1918-2012), the 1972 [[governor|gubernatorial]] nominee from Perry County, who had been badly defeated by [[Dale Bumpers]].
===Death===
Cohee and his wife, the former Patricia "Pat" Ann Miller, married on May 25, 1956, in Bard in Imperial County, California. At the time of his death at the age of seventy-four, they resided in [[rural]] Cotter in Baxter County. There are three Cohee sons, Dan Cohee of Gassville in Baxter County, David Cohee of Cotter, and Don Cohee of Springdale, Arkansas.<ref name=obit/>
Cohee and his wife, the former Patricia "Pat" Ann Miller, married on May 25, 1956, in [[Bard, California|Bard]] in Imperial County, California. At the time of his death at the age of seventy-four, they resided in [[rural]] [[Cotter, Arkansas|Cotter]] in Baxter County. There are three Cohee sons, Dan Cohee of Gassville in Baxter County, David Cohee of Cotter, and Don Cohee of Springdale, Arkansas.<ref name=obit/>
Richard Homan of Mountain Home in Baxter County described his friend Cohee as "like a bulldog. He didn't let go until a problem was resolved."<ref>"GOP leader Bob Cohee, 74, dead: Remembered as political 'lightning rod," ''The Baxter Bulletin,''|accessed May 26, 2014}}</ref>
Richard Homan of Mountain Home in Baxter County described his friend Cohee as "like a bulldog. He didn't let go until a problem was resolved."<ref>"GOP leader Bob Cohee, 74, dead: Remembered as political 'lightning rod," ''The Baxter Bulletin,''|accessed May 26, 2014}}</ref>