Joseph S. Cabot
Joseph Sebastian Cabot[1] | |
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4th Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts[2] | |
In office 1845–1849 | |
Preceded by | Stephen Palfrey Webb |
Succeeded by | Nathaniel Silsbee, Jr. |
Personal details | |
Born | October 8, 1796[1][2] Salem, Massachusetts[2] |
Died | June 29, 1874[2] Salem, Massachusetts[3] | (aged 77)
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Martha Laurens Stearns[1] |
Residence | Chestnut Street, Salem, Massachusetts[3] |
Alma mater | Harvard,[3] 1815[1][2][3] |
Profession | Bank president[2] |
Joseph Sebastian Cabot (October 8, 1796 – June 29, 1874) was a Massachusetts banker and politician who served as the fourth Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts.
Cabot was president of the Asiatic Bank,[2][3] the Salem Savings Bank, and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.[1] He was also the Massachusetts State Bank Commissioner.[1]
In 1838, Cabot's name was submitted for a fourth consecutive Democratic nomination to the United States House of Representatives from the south Essex County district, but the district convention at Salem chose Robert Rantoul Jr. The nomination provoked a dispute between Rantoul and Benjamin F. Hallett, who supported Cabot and was in competition with Rantoul for the position of United States Attorney.[4] Rantoul went on to lose to Whig incumbent Leverett Saltonstall I with a significant write-in vote for Cabot.[5] Rantoul claimed these votes were cast by Gloucester fishermen returning from long months at sea who had been misinformed that Cabot was the Democratic nominee by "disorganizers."[6]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Treman, Ebenezer Mack (1901), The History of the Treman, Tremaine, Truman family in America, Part II., Ithaca, N.Y.: Ebenezer Mack Treman, p. 1820
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Hurd, Duane Hamilton (1888), History of Essex County, Massachusetts: with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Volume I, Issue 1, Philadelphia, PA: J.W. Lewis & Co., p. 225
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e The Boston Globe (June 30, 1874), "JOSEPH S. CABOT.", The Boston Globe., Boston, MA, p. 4
- ^ Darling, Arthur (1925). Political Changes in Massachuestts, 1824–1848. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. pp. 222–24.
- ^ "MA District 2, 1838". March 22, 2011. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
- ^ Darling, p. 235.
- 1796 births
- 1874 deaths
- Harvard University alumni
- Mayors of Salem, Massachusetts
- American bankers
- 19th-century American politicians
- 19th-century American businesspeople