Henry Cabot Lodge biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Henry Cabot Lodge

Author Name:

Henry Cabot Lodge

Born As:

Henry Cabot Lodge

Other Names:

Born:

12 May 1850

Died:

9 Nov 1924




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Wife Anna Cabot Mills Davis -  two sons, the noted poet George Cabot Lodge and John Ellerton Lodge

Anna,  had a long-term love affair in the 1880s-90s with Washington insider and future Secretary of State John Hay.

Lodge's grandson Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1953 to 1960.                          
                          
The League of Nations charter that required all signatory nations to deploy troops to repel aggression of any kind. Lodge felt that an open-ended commitment to deploy soldiers into conflict regardless of it being relevant to the national security interests of the UnThe League of Nations was replaced by The United Nations.