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CABOT, GEORGE (1751–1823)

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GEORGE
GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
GEORGE, LAKE
GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)
GEORGE (1751–1823) , See also:

AMERICAN

American See also:

POLITICAL

political See also:

LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

SALEM

Salem, See also:

MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, on the 16th of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1751. He studied at Harvard from 1766 to 1768, when he went to See also:

sea as a See also:

CABIN

cabin boy. He gradually became a See also:

SHIP

ship-owner and a successful See also:

MERCHANT (O. Fr. marcheant, modern marchand; from Lat. mercari, to trade, merx, goods, merchandise)

merchant, retiring from business in 1794. Throughout his See also:

LIFE

life he was much interested in politics, and though his See also:

TEMPERA (the Italian term), or DISTEMPER

tempera-See also:

MENTAL

mental indolence and his aversion for public life often prevented his accepting See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office, he exercised, as a contributor to the See also:

PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

press and through his friendships, a powerful political See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence, especially in New See also:

England. He was a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional See also:

Convention of 1779-1780, of the See also:

state See also:

SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

senate in 1782–1783, of the convention which in 1788 ratified for Massachusetts the Federal Constitution, and from 1791 to 1796 of the See also:

UNITED

United States Senate, in which, besides serving on various important committees, he became recognized as an authority on economic and commercial matters. Among the bills introduced by him in the Senate was the Fugitive Slave See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act of 1793. Upon the See also:

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment of the See also:

NAVY

navy See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department in 1798, he was appointed and confirmed as its secretary, but he never performed the duties of the office, and was soon replaced by See also:

Benjamin Stoddert (1751–1813), actually though not nominally the first secretary of the department. In 1814–1815 Cabot was the See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the See also:

HARTFORD

Hartford Convention, and as such was then and afterwards acrimoniously attacked by the Republicans through-out the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country. He died in See also:

Boston on the 18th of See also:

APRIL

April 1823. In politics he was a staunch Federalist, and with See also:

Fisher See also:

Ames, See also:

Timothy See also:

Pickering and See also:

THEOPHILUS

Theophilus See also:

Parsons (all of whom lived in See also:

Essex See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, Massachusetts) was classed as a member of the " Essex Junto,"—a wing of the party and not a formal organization. A fervent See also:

ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate of a strong centralized See also:

government, he did much to secure the ratification by Massachusetts of the Federal Constitution, and after the overturn of the Federalist by the Republican party, he wrote (1804): " We are democratic altogether, and I hold See also:

DEMOCRACY (Gr. 3np.oKparia, from S)µos, the people, i.e. the commons, and Kparos, rule)

democracy in its natural operation to be a government of the worst." See See also:

Henry Cabot See also:

Lodge's Life and Letters of George Cabot (Boston, 1877).

End of Article: CABOT, GEORGE (1751–1823)

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