Thomas Dudley Cabot
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| Born | May 1, 1897 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | June 8, 1995 (age 98) Weston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education |
Buckingham Browne & Nichols (1913) Harvard University (S.B. Engineering, 1919) |
| Occupation | Businessman, philanthropist |
| Spouse(s) | Virginia Wellington Cabot (m. 1920-his death in 1995) |
| Children | Louis Wellington Cabot Thomas Dudley Cabot Jr. Robert Moors Cabot Edmund Billings Cabot Linda Cabot Black |
| Parent(s) |
Godfrey Lowell Cabot Maria Moors Cabot |
Thomas Dudley Cabot (May 1, 1897 – June 8, 1995) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He also became U.S. Department of State's Director of Office of International Security Affairs.
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 named after Thomas Dudley, governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony who signed the charter creating Harvard College. Two of his siblings were John Moors Cabot (b. 1901), U.S. Ambassador to Sweden, Colombia, Brazil, and Poland during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administration, and Eleanor Cabot of the Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate.
Cabot graduated from Buckingham Browne & Nichols in 1913. He took some courses at Boston Tech (now known as Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Curtiss Flying School, becoming a World War I flight instructor at Kelly Field in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, before graduating cum laude from Harvard University with a S.B. in Engineering, in 1919.
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