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the First World War.
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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