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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsHenry Cabot LODGE, Jr.
(1902-1985)
Senate Years of Service:
1937-1944; 1947-1953Party: Republican;
RepublicanLODGE, 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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