1910's Government and Politics | Lodge, Henry Cabot 1850-1924

U.S. SENATOR, 1893-1924

A Conservative Republican.

As a leader of the conservative wing of the Republican Party, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts fought the social and political reforms advocated by progressives in his own party and led the successful effort to defeat the Treaty of Versailles in the Senate.

Early Life.

Born into a prominent Boston family on 12 May 1850, Henry Cabot Lodge graduated from Harvard College in 1871 and from Harvard Law School in 1874. In 1876 he received the first political science Ph.D. ever granted at Harvard, writing his thesis on Anglo-Saxon land law. From 1873 to 1876, with the backing of Henry Adams, Lodge edited the North American Review. He was a lecturer on U.S. history at Harvard from 1876 to 1879, and for a time it seemed that he would pursue a career in academia. During the 1880s and 1890s he published several biographies and histories, including Life...