James E. Devitt
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James E. Devitt (1920 – May 1994) was an American lawyer and insurance executive who served as president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York.
He was a son of Louis James Devitt (1892–1985) and Nora Gertrude (née Cavanaugh) Devitt (1894–1982). Among his siblings was brother William Louis Devitt, also a soldier and lawyer, who wrote Shavetail: The Odyssey of an Infantry Lieutenant in World War II.[1]
Devitt graduated from the University of Minnesota before attending Harvard Law School, from where he graduated in 1949. During World War II, he served as a major in the U.S. Army.[2]