Henry Cabot Lodge

Henry Cabot Lodge Sr. ( born May 12, 1850 in Boston, Massachusetts, † November 9, 1924 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American politician who represented the state of Massachusetts in both chambers of Congress. He was the great-grandson of George Cabot (1752-1823), who had been politically active at the time of American independence until the early 19th century.

Life

Henry Cabot Lodge studied at Harvard University Political Science and Law and was admitted to the bar in 1875. But his real interest was in politics and he joined the Republican Party. From 1880 to 1881 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In 1887, Lodge was elected as an MP in the House of Representatives of the United States. From there he moved in 1893 to the U.S. Senate and was then until his death in 1924 senator of his home state. He is best known as the spokesman of the Republican opposition to the accession of the United States to the League of Nations. This proposed by President Woodrow Wilson organization was founded without American participation. In addition, Lodge sat for a reform of the U.S. Navy and for a new stricter immigration law a.

Since 1871, he was with Anna Cabot Mills Davies, a subsidiary of an American admiral, married. From this marriage the sons of George come (1873-1909) and John. George was a well known American poet and was the father of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.. Ironically, the grandson of American Ambassador was at the United Nations, the organization that in 1945 emerged from his grandfather as opposed League of Nations.

Lodge died in 1924 from a stroke and was interred in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. There lie the remains of some of his ancestors and his grandson of the same.