Charles Codman Cabot (November 22, 1900 – 1976) was an American judge of the

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Early life

Cabot was born in

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. His father was Henry Bromfield Cabot, a lawyer. His mother was Anne Macmaster (Codman) Cabot, daughter of Charles R. Codman.Pg. 21-23 He had five siblings: Henry Bromfield Cabot Jr. (b. 1894), Powell Mason Cabot (b. 1896), Paul Codman Cabot (b. 1898), cofounder of America's first mutual fund and "Harvard's ndowmentMidas," Anne M. Cabot (b. 1903), and Susan M. Cabot (b. 1907). Cabot graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

Career

Cabot was a law partner of a prominent Boston law firm, and an associate justice of the

from 1943 to 1947. He was also the

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U.S.

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secretariat. Cabot was president of the

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from 1950 to 1952. He was on the board of directors of the eugenicist

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from 1950 until 1973, and president of the Harvard Alumni Association.

References

1900 births 1976 deaths Cabot family Lawyers from Brookline, Massachusetts Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court United States government officials of World War II 20th-century American lawyers Harvard Law School alumni 20th-century Massachusetts state court judges Harvard College alumni {{Massachusetts-state-judge-stub Pioneer Fund members