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Article: Lodge, Henry Cabot 1850-1924
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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
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