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[[Politician]], [[diplomat]]<br>
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'''Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.''' (July 5, 1902 – February 27, 1985), was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from [[Massachusetts]] and an Ambassador to the [[Vatican]], the [[United Nations]], and the former [[South Vietnam]] and [[Germany|West Germany]]. A [[Moderate Republican]], Lodge is perhaps best remembered for his vice-presidential candidacy with [[Richard M. Nixon]], when the ticket lost to the [[Democratic Party|Democrats]] [[John F. Kennedy]] and [[Lyndon B. Johnson]].
'''Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.''' (July 5, 1902 – February 27, 1985), was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from [[Massachusetts]] and an Ambassador to the [[Vatican]], the [[United Nations]], and the former [[South Vietnam]] and [[Germany|West Germany]]. A [[Moderate Republican]], Lodge is perhaps best remembered for his vice-presidential candidacy with [[Richard M. Nixon]], when the ticket lost to the [[Democratic Party|Democrats]] [[John F. Kennedy]] and [[Lyndon B. Johnson]].
==Background==
==Background==
Born in Nahant in Essex County, Massachusetts, Lodge was the son of George Cabot Lodge, Sr. (1873-1909), who died at the age of thirty-five when his son was only seven years of age. His mother was the former Mathilda Elizabeth Frelinghuysen Davis (1876-1960). He was the grandson of the first Senator [[Henry Cabot Lodge]],<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2837/henry-cabot-lodge|title=Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 27, 2020}}</ref> the nemesis of [[Woodrow Wilson]]'s efforts to place the United States into the [[League of Nations]]. His great-grandfather was [[United States Secretary of State]] Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen.
Born in Nahant in Essex County, Massachusetts, Lodge was the son of George Cabot Lodge, Sr. (1873-1909), who died at the age of thirty-five when his son was only seven years of age. His mother was the former Mathilda Elizabeth Frelinghuysen Davis (1876-1960). He was the grandson of the first Senator [[Henry Cabot Lodge]],<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2837/henry-cabot-lodge|title=Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 27, 2020}}</ref> the nemesis of [[Woodrow Wilson]]'s efforts in 1919 to place the United States into the [[League of Nations]]. His maternal great-grandfather was [[United States Secretary of State]] Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen.
==Political legacy==
==Political legacy==