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Senate Years of Service: 1937-1944; 1947-1953 Party: Republican; Republican
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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.
BibliographyAmerican 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.
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