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'''Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.''' (July 5, 1902 &ndash; 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]].​ Lodge was unable to carry his own Massachusetts, which voted for its other native son, Kennedy.

'''Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.''' (July 5, 1902 &ndash; 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]].​ Lodge was unable to carry his own Massachusetts, which voted for its other native son, Kennedy.

The next year Eisenhower appointed Lodge as Ambassador to the United States, a [[Cabinet]]-level post that he retained until the 1960 presidential election aaign. After the defeat in 1960, Kennedy appointed his former rival Lodge to be the Ambassador to South Vietnam, in which capacity Lodge supported the 1963 South Vietnamese coup that led to the murder of President [[Ngo Dinh Diem]] and Diem's brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu. While in Viet Nam, he won the [[New Hampshire]] presidential [[primary]] of 1964 in a write-in contest without campaigning. Richard Nixon also received write-in-vote in the 1964 primary. The eventual nominee, [[Barry Goldwater]] of [[Arizona]], was handily defeated by Lyndon Johnson. He held other positions under presidents of both parties and was part of the U.S. delegation to the prolonged Paris Peace Accords, which first convened in of 1968. That same year, Richard Nixon was again the Republican presidential nominee; he tapped [[Spiro T. Agnew]], the governor of [[Maryland]] for the second slot, rather than Lodge, and went on to defeat Democrat [[Hubert Humphrey]] of [[Minnesota]].

The next year Eisenhower appointed Lodge as Ambassador to the United States, a [[Cabinet]]-level post that he retained until the 1960 presidential election aaign. After the defeat in 1960, Kennedy appointed his former rival Lodge to be the Ambassador to South Vietnam, in which capacity Lodge supported the 1963 South Vietnamese coup that led to the murder of President [[Ngo Dinh Diem]] and Diem's brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu. While in Viet Nam, he won the [[New Hampshire]] presidential [[primary]] of 1964 in a write-in contest without campaigning. Richard Nixon also received write-in-vote in the 1964 primary. The eventual nominee, [[Barry Goldwater]] of [[Arizona]], was handily defeated by Lyndon Johnson. He held other positions under presidents of both parties and was part of the U.S. delegation to the prolonged Paris Peace Accords, which first convened in of 1968. That same year, Richard Nixon was again the Republican presidential nominee; he tapped [[Spiro T. Agnew]], the governor of [[Maryland]] for the second slot, rather than Lodge, and went on to defeat Democrat [[Hubert Humphrey]] of [[Minnesota]].

Lodge died at the age of eighty-two in Beverly, Massachusetts, and is interred at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Middlesex County, some four miles west of [[Boston]].​<ref name=findagrave/> His younger brother, John Davis Lodge (1903-1985), a former governor of [[Connecticut]] and ambassador to [[Spain]], [[Argentina]], and [[Switzerland]],  died eight months after his brother's passing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7392/john-davis-lodge|title=John Davis Lodge|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 27, 2020}}</ref> Lodge's older son, George Cabot Lodge, Jr., was the unsuccessful Republican nominee in 1962 for the Senate seat that Kennedy had vacated to become president. He lost to Kennedy's younger brother, [[Ted Kennedy]], who then held the seat without much opposition until his death in 2010.

Lodge died at the age of eighty-two in Beverly, Massachusetts, and is interred at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Middlesex County, some four miles west of [[Boston]].​<ref name=findagrave/> His younger brother, John Davis Lodge (1903-1985), a former governor of [[Connecticut]] and ambassador to [[Spain]], [[Argentina]], and [[Switzerland]],  died eight months after his brother's passing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7392/john-davis-lodge|title=John Davis Lodge|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 27, 2020}}</ref> Lodge's older son, George Cabot Lodge, Jr., [[professor]]-emeritus at the Harvard Business School, was the unsuccessful Republican nominee in 1962 for the Senate seat that Kennedy had vacated to become president. Like his father, a Moderate Republican, he lost to Kennedy's younger brother, [[Ted Kennedy]], who then held the seat with little opposition until his death in 2010.

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