John Moors Cabot

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John Moors Cabot
Harry Truman
Preceded byAvra M. Warren
Succeeded byJack K. McFall
Personal details
BornDecember 11, 1901
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedFebruary 24, 1981(1981-02-24) (aged 79)
Washington, D.C.
Spouse
Elizabeth Lewis
​
(m. 1932)​
(1906-1992)
ChildrenJohn Godfrey Lowell Cabot
Lewis Cabot
Parent(s)
U.S. Ambassador

John Moors Cabot (December 11, 1901 – February 24, 1981) was an American diplomat and

Kennedy administrations. He also served as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.[1]
He warned repeatedly of the dangers of Soviet communism toward American interests in Latin America.

Early life

Cabot was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[2] His father was Godfrey Lowell Cabot (1861–1962),[2] founder of Cabot Corporation[3] and a philanthropist. His mother was Maria Moors Cabot. Two of his siblings were Thomas Dudley Cabot[4] (b. 1897), businessman and philanthropist, and Eleanor Cabot of the Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate.[5]

Cabot graduated from

Oxford University with a degree in Modern History.[2]

Career

Cabot joined the US Foreign Service in 1926. Much of his early career was spent in Latin America. His first Foreign Service assignment was as a consul in Callao-Lima, Peru, in 1927. For the next eight years, he served in the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Brazil. From 1935 to 1939, he served first in the Netherlands and then in Sweden. From 1939 to 1941, he was in Guatemala.[7]

During much of World War II, Cabot worked in the State Department as assistant chief of the division of American Republics and then as chief of the division of Caribbean and Central American affairs.[7]

Cabot (centre) in Shanghai in 1948 with Mayor K.C. Wu to his left

He was posted to

Consul General in Shanghai between 1948 and 1949 and was in post when the Communist troops took over the city in May, 1949.[7]

Cabot served a

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.[10]

As ambassador to Brazil, 1959–1961 his public relations campaigns on behalf of American business angered nationalist politicians and journalists. President Jânio Quadros of Brazil publicly rebuked Cabot for questioning Brazil's foreign policy and tolerance of the Cuban revolution. President John Kennedy recalled Cabot early in 1961.[11][12]

In December 1954, Cabot, in his role as U.S. ambassador to Sweden, attended the Nobel banquet and read the acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature awarded that year to Ernest Hemingway who was not present due to ill health.[13]

Following his retirement from the

Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.[2] In 1981, Tuft's John M. and Elizabeth L. Cabot Intercultural Center was named in honor of Cabot and his wife.[14]

Personal life

In 1932, he married Vassar College graduate Elizabeth Lewis (d. 1992).[15] Together, they were the parents of four children:[16][17]

Cabot died at

Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., on February 24, 1981.[22]

Published works

  • The Racial Conflict in Transylvania: A Discussion of the Conflicting Claims of Rumania and Hungary to Transylvania, the Banat, and the Eastern Section of the Hungarian Plain, 1926
  • Toward Our Common American Destiny: Speeches and Interviews on Latin American Problems, 1954
  • First line of defense: forty years' experiences of a career diplomat (Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, 1979).

References

  1. ^
    Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum
    . Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  2. ^
    New York Times
    . February 25, 1981. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
  3. ^ "The History of Cabot Corporation". Cabot Corporation. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  4. New York Times
    . June 10, 1995. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  5. ^ Town & Country, Volumes 75-76. February 20, 1919. Retrieved July 28, 2011. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  6. Buckingham Browne & Nichols. Archived from the original
    on October 5, 2011. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  7. ^ a b c Washington Post, Obituary, 25 February 1981
  8. ^ "John Moors Cabot - People - Department History". history.state.gov. Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs United States Department of State. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  9. U.S. Department of State
    . Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  10. ^ "John Moors Cabot Oral History Interview - JFK #1, 1/27/1971". John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  11. ^ Bruce W. Jentleson and Thomas G. Paterson, eds. Encyclopedia of US foreign relations. (1997) 1:207.
  12. ^ Streeter, Stephen M. "Campaigning against Latin American Nationalism: US Ambassador John Moors Cabot in Brazil, 1959-1961." The Americas 51.2 (1994): 193-218.
  13. ^ "Ernest Hemingway's Banquet Speech". nobelprize.org. December 10, 1954. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  14. ^ Miller, Russell (1986). "Light on the Hill, Volume II". Tufts Digital Library. Retrieved August 26, 2011.
  15. ^ Smith, J. Y. (27 December 1992). "E.L. CABOT, AMBASSADOR'S WIFE, DIES". The Washington Post. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  16. ^ "A Guide to the John Moors Cabot papers, 1929-1980". Tufts Digital Library. 2008. Retrieved August 26, 2011.
  17. ^ Jensen, Michael C. (12 March 1972). "The Cabots of Boston". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  18. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2022-01-29.
  19. ^ "Obituary: Lewis P. Cabot". Press Herald. 2020-01-12. Retrieved 2022-01-29.
  20. ^ "MARJORIE CABOT WILL BE MARRIED; Daughter of the U.S. Envoy to Colombia Is Fiancee of Antonio Enriquez". The New York Times. 28 July 1957. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  21. ^ "WEDDINGS; Severa von Wentzel, Adam Boswick". The New York Times. 25 July 1999. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  22. Washington Post
    . Retrieved 12 February 2018.

Further reading

  • Streeter, Stephen M. "Campaigning against Latin American Nationalism: US Ambassador John Moors Cabot in Brazil, 1959-1961." The Americas 51.2 (1994): 193-218.

External links

Government offices
Preceded by
Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs

March 3, 1953 – March 1, 1954 		Succeeded by
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to Finland

February 27, 1950 – September 20, 1952 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to Sweden

May 6, 1954 – May 14, 1957 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to Colombia

July 12, 1957 – July 15, 1959 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to Brazil

July 22, 1959 – August 17, 1961 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to Poland

March 2, 1962 – September 24, 1965 		Succeeded by
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