Background
Cabot was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His father was Godfrey Lowell Cabot, founder of Cabot Corporation and a philanthropist. His mother was Maria Moors Cabot.
Cabot was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His father was Godfrey Lowell Cabot, founder of Cabot Corporation and a philanthropist. His mother was Maria Moors Cabot.
Cabot graduated from Buckingham Browne & Nichols in 1919.
He also served as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. He would go on to graduate magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1923, and from Oxford University with a degree in Modern History. Cabot was a United States. Ambassador to Sweden from 1954 to 1957, Colombia from 1957 to 1959, Brazil from 1959 to 1961, and Poland from 1962–1965, during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administration.
He was also commissioned to Pakistan during a recess of the Senate, but did not serve under this appointment.
From 1953-1954, he also served as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. There is a 27 page transcript from an interview of Cabot, discussing the Alliance for Progress, Bay of Pigs invasion, Cold War, foreign policy, and international relations during the Kennedy administration, archived in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Following his retirement from the United States. Department of State, he taught at Georgetown University"s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Tufts Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.