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4 unusual facts about Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.


Henry Lodge

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902–1985), grandson of Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. senator from Massachusetts, and candidate for vice president of the United States

Lodge-Philbin Act

The Act was pushed through Congress by Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. during the Cold War, looking especially for recruits from Eastern Europe (the Soviet Bloc) to form infiltration units working in that part of the world.

Maxwell M. Rabb

From 1937 to 1943, Rabb served as administrative assistant (secretary) to U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. of Massachusetts.

Peter Tarnoff

During his career as a Foreign Service Officer, Tarnoff served as Executive Secretary of the Department of State and Special Assistant to Secretaries of State Edmund Muskie and Cyrus Vance (1977–1981); Director, Office of Research and Analysis for Western Europe (1975–76); Special Assistant to Ambassador-at-Large Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1967); and Nigerian Analyst in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1966–67).


Arthur S. Link

Link had previously stated that Wilson would have taken the same unbending stand against ratification of the Versailles Treaty with Henry Cabot Lodge's reservations if he had enjoyed perfect health.

Fifth Party System

Opposition Republicans were split between a conservative wing, led by Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft, and a more successful moderate wing exemplified by the politics of Northeastern leaders such as Nelson Rockefeller, George W. Romney, William Scranton and Henry Cabot Lodge.

George C. Lodge

Additionally, Lodge's patrilineal great-grandfather Henry Cabot Lodge was reelected for the same senate seat as the incumbent 1916 U.S. Senate candidate against the Kennedy brothers' maternal grandfather, John F. Fitzgerald.

His father was a Republican U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, U.S. Ambassador to United Nations and South Vietnam, and 1960 vice presidential candidate for Richard Nixon against John F. Kennedy-Lyndon B. Johnson.

Henry Cabot Lodge House

It was designated as the only known residential building associated with United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (1850 – 1924).

Henry Lodge

Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), Republican U.S. Representative and Senator who argued against the League of Nations in 1919

James S. Sherman

Henry Cabot Lodge recognised this job as a major test of integrity and judgment, and declared that Sherman was supremely fitted for it.

Lily Lodge

She is also the niece of former Vice-President candidate Henry Cabot Lodge.

Lodge Corollary

The Lodge Corollary was a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine proposed by Henry Cabot Lodge and ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1912 forbidding any foreign power or foreign interest of any kind from acquiring sufficient territory in the Western Hemisphere so as to put that government in "practical power of control".

Robert Bond

It failed because of the objections of US senator Henry Cabot Lodge.

United States Mission to the United Nations

Many prominent U.S. politicians and diplomats have held the post, including Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Adlai Stevenson, George H. W. Bush, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Dr. Jeane Kirkpatrick, Richard Holbrooke, Dr. Madeleine Albright, Bill Richardson, and John Danforth.

United States non-interventionism

A group of Senators known as the Irreconcilables, identifying with both William Borah and Henry Cabot Lodge, had great objections regarding the clauses of the treaty which compelled America to come to the defense of other nations.

United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 1962

In the Republican primary, George C. Lodge, a former member of the Eisenhower administration and the son of Henry Cabot Lodge, defeated Laurence Curtis, the Representative from Massachusetts's 10th congressional district in the Republican primary.


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