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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsHenry Cabot LODGE
(1850-1924)
Senate Years of Service:
1893-1924Party: RepublicanLODGE, Henry Cabot,
(great-grandson of George Cabot, grandfather of Henry Cabot Lodge,
Jr., and John Davis Lodge), a Representative and a Senator from
Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., May 12, 1850; attended a
private school and graduated from Harvard University in 1871;
editor of the North American Review 1873-1876; graduated from the
Harvard Law School in 1874 and admitted to the bar in 1875; earned
one of the first Ph.D. degrees in history and government granted by
Harvard University in 1876; lecturer on American history at Harvard
University 1876-1879; member, State house of representatives
1880-1881; author of many historical, biographical, and political
works; unsuccessful Republican candidate in 1882 for election to
the Forty-eighth Congress and in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress;
elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and
Fifty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1887, until March
3, 1893, when he resigned; had been reelected to the Fifty-third
Congress, but was later elected as a Republican to the United
States Senate in 1893; reelected to the Senate in 1899, 1905, 1911,
1916, and 1922 and served from March 4, 1893, until his death;
Republican Conference chairman (1918-24); president pro tempore
(1911-13); chairman, Committee on Immigration (Fifty-fourth through
Sixty-second Congresses), Committee on Printing (Fifty-fifth
Congress), Committee on the Philippines (Fifty-sixth through
Sixty-first Congresses), Committee on Private Land Claims
(Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Foreign
Relations (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-eighth Congresses), Republican
Conference (1918-24); appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt a
member of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal in 1903; member of the
United States Immigration Commission 1907-1910; overseer of Harvard
University from 1911 until his death; represented the United States
as a member of the Conference on Limitation of Armament in 1921;
died in Cambridge, Mass., on November 9, 1924; interment in Mount
Auburn Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Garraty, John A. Henry Cabot Lodge: A
Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953; Lodge, Henry Cabot.
The Senate of the United States, and Other Essays and Addresses
Historical and Literary. New York: Charles Scribner’s
Sons, 1925.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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