Henry
Cabot Lodge was born in Boston on 12th
May, 1850. Educated at Harvard University
and in 1876 was awarded a Ph.D. in political science. Lodge taught
at Harvard and was assistant editor of
the North American Review.
Lodge was elected to the state legislature (1880-81), the House of
Representatives (1887-93) and the Senate (1893-1924). After the split
with Theodore Roosevelt, Lodge led
the conservative wing of the Republican
Party. A staunch critic of Woodrow Wilson,
Lodge complained about the way the administration organised the war
effort.
When in November, 1918, the Republican
Party gained control of Congress, Lodge, was able to obstruct
Wilson's policies. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations, Lodge led the campaign against the ratification of the
Versailles Peace Treaty and membership
of the League of Nations. Lodge organised
the passing of a series of amendments that would require the approval
of Congress before the United States would be bound by certain decisions
of the League. Woodrow Wilson refused
to accept Lodge's amendments and the measure was defeated.
In 1921 Lodge served as one of the USA's delegates to the Washington
Conference on the Limitation of Armaments. Henry Cabot Lodge died
on 9th November, 1924.
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