Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
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Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (July 5, 1902 – February 27, 1985) was a United States Senator from Massachusetts, a U.S. ambassador, and a candidate for Vice President of the United States.
Career
Lodge was born in Nahant, Massachusetts, the grandson of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. After graduating from Harvard University in 1924, and working in the newspaper business, he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1931.Elected to the Senate as a Republican in 1936, he served until 1944, when he quit to go on active service in the army in World War II, the first senator to do so since the Civil War. He served with distinction, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and was elected once again to the Senate in 1946, as the Republicans captured both houses of the Congress.
In 1952 he was defeated in his bid for reelection by Congressman John F. Kennedy, and in 1953, he was named U.S. ambassador to the United Nations by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In contrast to his grandfather (who had been a principal opponent of the UN's predecessor, the League of Nations), Lodge was supportive of the UN as an institution for promoting peace. Since that time, no one has even approached his record of 7 years as ambassador to the UN.
Lodge left the ambassadorship during the election of 1960 to run for Vice President on the Republican ticket headed by Richard M. Nixon. The duo lost the election to Lodge's old foe, Kennedy. Kennedy appointed Lodge to the position of Ambassador to South Vietnam, which he held from 1963 to 1964.
In 1964, Lodge was the surprise write-in victor of the Republican New Hampshire primary, defeating declared candidates Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller. He was re-appointed ambassador to South Vietnam by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, and served thereafter as Ambassador at Large (1967-1968) and Ambassador to West Germany (1968-1969). In 1969, he was appointed by President Richard Nixon to serve as head of the American team at the Paris peace negotiations, and he served as Special Envoy to the Vatican from 1970 to 1977.
Death and burial
On his passing in 1985, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. was interred in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Famous family
- Henry Cabot Lodge was his grandfather
- George Cabot was a great-great-great grandfather
- John Davis was a great-great grandfather
- Elijah Hunt Mills was a great-great grandfather
- John Davis Lodge was a brother
- Augustus P. Gardner was an uncle
See also
- William Lederer who co-authored The Ugly American
External links
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