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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsLODGE, Henry Cabot, Jr.
(1902—1985)
Senate Years of Service:
1937-1944; 1947-1953
Party:
Republican; Republican
LODGE, Henry Cabot, Jr., (great-great-great grandson of George Cabot, great-great grandson of John Davis of Massachusetts, great-great grandson of Elijah Hunt Mills, grandson of Henry Cabot Lodge, brother of John Davis Lodge, and nephew of Augustus P. Gardner), a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Nahant, Essex County, Mass., on July 5, 1902; graduated from Middlesex School, Concord, Mass., in 1920 and from Harvard University in 1924; engaged in newspaper work 1924-1931; member, Massachusetts State legislature 1933-1936; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1936; reelected in 1942, and served from January 3, 1937, until his resignation on February 3, 1944, to go on active duty during the Second World War in the United States Army; the first United States Senator since the Civil War to leave the Senate in order to go to war; served in the Mediterranean and European Theaters, rising to lieutenant colonel; again elected to the United States Senate in 1946 and served from January 3, 1947, to January 3, 1953; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952; United States representative to the United Nations from February 1953 until his resignation September 3, 1960; unsuccessful Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1960; Ambassador to Republic of Vietnam 1963-1964; again appointed Ambassador to Vietnam 1965-1967; United States Ambassador at Large 1967-1968; Ambassador to Germany 1968-1969; appointed by President Richard Nixon to serve as head of the American delegation to the Vietnam peace negotiations in Paris, France, and served until December 1969; appointed by President Nixon to serve as special envoy to the Vatican 1970-1977; died in Beverly, Mass., February 27, 1985; interment in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives
; Lodge, Henry C., Jr., The Storm Has Many Eyes, A Personal Narrative
. New York: Norton, 1973; Miller, William J., Henry Cabot Lodge: A Biography
. New York: Heinman, 1967.
Kenneally, James. “Prelude to the Last Hurrah: The Massachusetts Senatorial Election of 1936.” Mid-America
62 (January 1980), 3-20.
Lodge, Henry Cabot Jr. As It Was: An Inside View of Politics and Power in the ‘50s and ‘60s.
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1977.
____. The Cult of Weakness.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932.
____. The Storm Has Many Eyes: A Personal Narrative.
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1973.
Miller, William J. Henry Cabot Lodge: A Biography
. New York: Heineman, 1967.
Sieg, Kent G. “W. Averell Harriman, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Quest for Peace in Vietnam.” Peace & Change
20 (April 1995), 237-49.
Whalen, Thomas J. Kennedy Versus Lodge: The 1952 Massachusetts Senate Race
. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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