1910's Government and Politics | "Henry Cabot Lodge Speaks Out Against the League of Nations, Washington, D.C., August 12, 1919"

Speech

By: Henry Cabot Lodge Sr.

Date: August 12, 1919

Source: Lodge, Henry Cabot, Sr. "Henry Cabot Lodge Speaks Out Against the League of Nations, Washington, D.C., August 12, 1919." Congressional Record. 66th Cong., 1st sess., 1919, p. 3784. Available online at "Great American Speeches": http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/timeline (accessed January 19, 2003).

About the Author: Henry Cabot Lodge Sr. (1850–1924) was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard with a law degree and was the first Harvard student to earn a Ph.D. in political science. He was a prolific writer of historical, biographical, and political works. In 1884, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives; in 1893, he was elected to the Senate, where he headed the prestigious Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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