Francis Higginson Cabot, Jr.

Francis Higginson Cabot, Jr. (13 February 1895, Staten Island - 4 February 1956) was the son of Francis Higginson Cabot of Massachusetts's famous Cabot family. He was educated at Groton School and graduated from Harvard in 1917 with an AB. When he left Harvard, he entered the Officers' Material School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was promoted Chief Quartermaster in July 1917; commissioned ensign in September, and sent to the U.S.S. Connecticut. He became a temporary lieutenant in the United States Navy, and resigned on 13 December 1918.

Oh his return to America, Cabot became a clerk and assistant secretary with the American International Corporation. In 1923, he became one of the Vice Presidents at Stone & Webster, Inc. He continued with Stone & Webster until 1935. The previous year he became President of the General Public Service Corporation. He was the corporation's Chairman of the Board, from 1935 to 1942; and Director General, in 1943.

Cabot began supporting the war industries in January 1941, when he joined the Office of Production Management and the Office of War Production. He continued in this capacity, until September 1943. Earlier that year, he became director of the Commodities Bureau. He briefly served as assistant deputy director general for the Industry Division.

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