Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr.
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| Senate Majority Leader | |
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In office March 4, 1920 – November 9, 1924 |
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| Deputy | Charles Curtis |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Charles Curtis |
| Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee | |
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In office March 4, 1919 – November 9, 1924 |
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| Preceded by | Gilbert Hitchcock |
| Succeeded by | William Borah |
| President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate | |
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In office May 25, 1912 – May 30, 1912 |
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| President | William Howard Taft |
| Preceded by | Augustus Octavius Bacon |
| Succeeded by | Augustus Octavius Bacon |
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United States Senator from Massachusetts |
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In office March 4, 1893 – November 9, 1924 |
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| Preceded by | Henry L. Dawes |
| Succeeded by | William M. Butler |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 6th district |
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In office March 4, 1887 – March 4, 1893 |
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| Preceded by | Henry B. Lovering |
| Succeeded by | William Cogswell |
| Chair of the Massachusetts Republican Party | |
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In office 1883–1884 |
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| Preceded by | Charles A. Stott |
| Succeeded by | Edward Avery |
| Personal details | |
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May 12, 1850 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | November 9, 1924 (aged 74) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Nannie Mills Davis (1871–1924) |
| Children | 3 (including George) |
| Education | Harvard University (BA, LLB, MA, PhD) |
Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850 – November 9, 1924) was an American Republican Senator and historian from Massachusetts. Lodge received his PhD in history from Harvard. Lodge was a long-time friend and confidant of Theodore Roosevelt. Lodge had the role (but not the official title) of the first Senate Majority Leader. He is best known for his positions on foreign policy, especially his battle with President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 over the Treaty of Versailles. Lodge demanded Congressional control of declarations of war; Wilson refused and blocked Lodge's move to ratify the treaty with reservations. As a result, the United States never joined the League of Nations.
Lodge was born in Beverly, Massachusetts. His father was John Ellerton Lodge. His mother was Anna Cabot, through whom he was a great-grandson of George Cabot. Lodge grew up on Boston's Beacon Hill and spent part of his childhood in Nahant, Massachusetts where he witnessed the 1860 kidnapping of a classmate and gave testimony leading to the arrest and conviction of the kidnappers. He was cousin to the American polymath Charles Peirce.
In 1872, he graduated from Harvard College, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, the Porcellian Club, and the Hasty Pudding Club. In 1874, he graduated from Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1875, practicing at the Boston firm now known as Ropes & Gray.
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