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==Political career==
==Political career==
[[File:Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. in an interview 1965.png|thumb|left|200px|Lodge at an interview, 1965.]]
After graduating from the exclusive St. Albans School in [[Washington, D.C.]], and [[Harvard University]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], Massachusetts, he worked for a time in the [[newspaper]] business and served from 1932 to 1936 as a state representative for Essex County. In 1936, he defeated Democratic [[Governor]] James Michael Curley for the United States Senate and served from 1937 to 1944, when he resigned from the body for [[World War II]] service in [[Italy]] and [[France]] during [[World War II]]. Thereafter he became a major general in the [[United States Army]] Reserve. In the Republican congressional year of 1946, Lodge defeated incumbent Democratic Senator David I. Walsh to return to the upper house of Congress. In 1952, he was an early supporter of [[Dwight Eisenhower]], a Moderate Republican, for his party's presidential nomination. Though Eisenhower was nominated over the more [[conservative]] [[Robert A. Taft]], a U.S. Senator from [[Ohio]] and the son of former President [[William Howard Taft]]. Eisenhower then defeated in the first of their two contests for President, the Democrat [[Adlai Stevenson]], former governor of [[Illinois]]. In that same election, Lodge lost his Senate seat to the Democrat [[U.S. Representative]] John F. Kennedy.
After graduating from the exclusive St. Albans School in [[Washington, D.C.]], and [[Harvard University]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], Massachusetts, he worked for a time in the [[newspaper]] business and served from 1932 to 1936 as a state representative for Essex County. In 1936, he defeated Democratic [[Governor]] James Michael Curley for the United States Senate and served from 1937 to 1944, when he resigned from the body for [[World War II]] service in [[Italy]] and [[France]] during [[World War II]]. Thereafter he became a major general in the [[United States Army]] Reserve. In the Republican congressional year of 1946, Lodge defeated incumbent Democratic Senator David I. Walsh to return to the upper house of Congress. In 1952, he was an early supporter of [[Dwight Eisenhower]], a Moderate Republican, for his party's presidential nomination. Though Eisenhower was nominated over the more [[conservative]] [[Robert A. Taft]], a U.S. Senator from [[Ohio]] and the son of former President [[William Howard Taft]]. Eisenhower then defeated in the first of their two contests for President, the Democrat [[Adlai Stevenson]], former governor of [[Illinois]]. In that same election, Lodge lost his Senate seat to the Democrat [[U.S. Representative]] John F. Kennedy.