Henry Cabot Lodge
U.S. Congressperson
1850 – 1924
Who was Henry Cabot Lodge?
Henry Cabot Lodge was an American Republican Senator and historian from Massachusetts. A PhD in history from Harvard, he was a long-time friend and confidant of Theodore Roosevelt. Lodge had the role of the first Senate Majority Leader. He is best known for his positions on foreign policy, especially his battle with President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 over the Treaty of Versailles. Lodge demanded Congressional control of declarations of war; Wilson refused and blocked Lodge's move to ratify the treaty with reservations. As a result the United States never joined the League of Nations.
Historian George E. Mowry argues that:
Henry Cabot Lodge was one of the best informed statesmen of his time, he was an excellent parliamentarian, and he brought to bear on foreign questions a mind that was at once razor sharp and devoid of much of the moral cant that was so typical of the age....[Yet] Lodge never made the contributions he should have made, largely because of Lodge the person. He was opportunistic, selfish, jealous, condescending, supercilious, and could never resist calling his opponent's spade a dirty shovel.
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- Born
- May 12, 1850
Boston - Also known as
- Henry Lodge
- Slim Lodge
- Parents
- Spouses
- Anna Cabot Mills Davis
(1871/06/25 - )
- Anna Cabot Mills Davis
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard Law School
- Harvard University
- Harvard College
- Died
- Nov 9, 1924
Cambridge
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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