George Cabot

George Cabot (* January 16, 1752 in Salem, Massachusetts, † April 18, 1823 in Boston ) was an American politician of the Federalist Party, who represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate.

George Cabot first visited two years Harvard College, which he then left to go to sea. Even as a 21- year-old he was the captain of his own ship. His political career began in 1775 with membership of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. Two years later he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of the state. 1787 Cabot belonged to the State Assembly, which ratified the Constitution of the United States.

In the early days of the United States George Cabot was counted for the Pro- Administration Group, that the political wing of the founding fathers, which supported the policy of the administration of George Washington. As a partisan of this group he was in 1790 elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served from March 4, 1791 until his resignation on 1796; in the meantime he had joined the Federalist Party.

1798 Cabot was nominated as U.S. Secretary of the Navy; However, he refused. In 1814 he was a delegate to the Hartford Convention. At this meeting, the New England states demonstrated their opposition to the British -American War and even considered secession.

George Cabot, who died in Boston in 1823 and was buried in Cambridge, was the great-grandfather of Henry Cabot Lodge, who represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate as well as the grandson of the same.