Henry Cabot Lodge senior

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 political science and law at Harvard University and was admitted to the bar in 1875. From 1876 to 1879 he taught American history . But his real interest was in politics and he joined the Republican Party . In 1878 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1898 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters . From 1880 to 1881 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives . In 1887, Lodge was elected to the United States House of Representatives. From there he moved to the US Senate in 1893 and was then a senator in his home state until his death in 1924. He became known as the spokesman for the Republican opposition to the United States joining the League of Nations . This organization, proposed by President Woodrow Wilson , was then founded without American participation. In addition, Lodge campaigned for a reform of the American Navy and a new, stricter immigration law.

From 1871 he was married to Anna Cabot Mills Davies, a daughter of an American admiral. From this marriage come the sons George (1873-1909) and John. George was a noted American poet and was the father of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. . Ironically, the grandson became the American ambassador to the United Nations , the organization that emerged in 1945 from the League of Nations so opposed by his grandfather.

Lodge died of a stroke in 1924 and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery , Cambridge. Some of his ancestors and his grandson of the same name also rest there .

Fonts

• Life and letters of George Cabot , biography, 1877
• Ballads and Lyrics, Selected and Arranged by Henry Cabot Lodge , 1880
• Alexander Hamilton , biography, 1882
• Daniel Webster , biography, 1883
• Short history of English colonies in America , New York 1883
• Studies on history , 1884
• Alexander Hamilton , 1887
• George Washington , Biography, 2 Volumes, 1889
• Boston , in the Historic Towns series , 1891
• Speeches , 1892
• Historical and political essays , 1892
• Hero tales from American history (together with Theodore Roosevelt ), 1895
• The story of the Revolution , 2 volumes, 1898
• War with Spain , 1899
• A Fighting Frigate, and Other Essays and Addresses , 1902
• A Frontier Town and Other Essays , 1906
• Speeches and Addresses: 1884-1909 , 1909
• The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose (with Francis Whiting Halsey ), 10 volumes, 1909
• The History of Nations , 1910
• Early Memories , 1913
• The Democracy of the Constitution, and Other Addresses and Essays , 1915
• Theodore Roosevelt , 1919
• The Senate of the United States and other essays and addresses, historical and literary , 1921
• The Senate and the League of Nations , 1925
• Selections from the Correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, 1884–1918 , 2 volumes, 1925

literature

• Lodge, Henry Cabot . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 16 : L - Lord Advocate . London 1911, p. 860 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

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• Henry Cabot Lodge in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Newspaper article about Henry Cabot Lodge senior in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Members: Henry Cabot Lodge. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 10, 2019 .