Henry Cabot Lodge, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American statesman
Date of Birth: 12-May-1850
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 09-Nov-1924
Profession: politician, historian, biographer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Henry Cabot Lodge
- Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850 – November 9, 1924) was an American Republican Senator and historian from Massachusetts.
- A member of the prominent Lodge family, he received his PhD in history from Harvard University.
- As an undergraduate at Harvard, he joined Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.
- He is best known for his positions on foreign policy, especially his battle with President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 over the Treaty of Versailles.
- The failure of that treaty ensured that the United States never joined the League of Nations.Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, Lodge won election to the Massachusetts House of Representatives after graduating from Harvard.
- He and his close friend, Theodore Roosevelt, opposed James G.
- Blaine's nomination at the 1884 Republican National Convention, but supported Blaine in the general election against Grover Cleveland.
- Lodge was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1886 before joining the United States Senate in 1893. In the Senate, he sponsored the unsuccessful Lodge Bill, which sought to protect the voting rights of African Americans.
- He supported the Spanish–American War and called for the annexation of the Philippines after the war.
- He also supported immigration restrictions, becoming a member of the Immigration Restriction League and influencing the Immigration Act of 1917.
- Lodge served as Chairman of the 1900 and 1908 Republican National Conventions.
- A member of the conservative wing of the Republican Party, Lodge opposed Roosevelt's third party bid for president in 1912, but the two remained close friends. During the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, Lodge advocated entrance into World War I on the side of the Allied Powers.
- He became Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, emerging as the leader of the Senate Republicans.
- He led the opposition to Wilson's Treaty of Versailles, proposing twelve reservations to the treaty.
- He most strongly objected to the provision of the treaty that required all nations to repel aggression, fearing that this would erode Congressional powers and commit the U.S.
- to burdensome obligations.
- Lodge prevailed in the treaty battle and Lodge's objections would influence the United Nations, the successor to the League of Nations.
- After the war, Lodge participated in the creation of the Washington Naval Treaty, which sought to prevent a naval arms race.
- He remained in the Senate until his death in 1924.
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