Charles Codman Cabot
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Charles Codman Cabot was an American
United States
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 judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts.

Early life

Cabot was born in Brookline, Massachusetts
Brookline, Massachusetts
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. His father was Henry Bromfield Cabot
Cabot family
The Cabot family was part of the Boston Brahmin, also known as the "first families of Boston."-Family origin:The Boston Brahmin Cabot family descended from John Cabot , who immigrated from his birthplace to Salem, Massachusetts in 1700...

, a lawyer. His mother was Anna McMasters Codman Cabot. 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 [Endowment] Midas," 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 1943-1947. He was also the World War II
World War II
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 U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey
Strategic bombing survey
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 secretariat.

Cabot was president of the Boston Bar Association
Boston Bar Association
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 from 1950 to 1952. He was on the Board of Directors of the Pioneer Fund
Pioneer Fund
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from 1950 until 1973, and president of the Harvard Alumni Association.
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