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

Early life

Cabot was born in

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. His father was Henry Bromfield

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, a lawyer. His mother was Anne Macmaster (Codman) Cabot, daughter of

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.Pg. 21-23 He had five siblings: Henry Bromfield Cabot Jr. (b. 1894), Powell Mason Cabot (b. 1896),

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(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 Supreme Court of Massachusetts from 1943 to 1947. He was also the World War II 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 Pioneer Fund from 1950 until 1973, and president of the Harvard Alumni Association.

References

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