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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.]]

[[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.<ref name=nytimes>Pace, Eric (February 28, 1985). [https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/28/us/henry-cabot-lodge-82-is-dead.html HENRY CABOT LODGE, 82, IS DEAD]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved May 28, 2021.</ref> 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.<ref name=nytimes>Pace, Eric (February 28, 1985). [https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/28/us/henry-cabot-lodge-82-is-dead.html HENRY CABOT LODGE, 82, IS DEAD]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved May 28, 2021.</ref> 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 1946 election cycle, Lodge defeated incumbent Democratic Senator David I. Walsh to return to the upper house of Congress.​<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=147415 MA US Senate Race - Nov 05, 1946]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved May 28, 2021.</ref> In 1952, he was an early supporter of [[Dwight Eisenhower]], a Moderate Republican, for his party's presidential nomination; Eisenhower was ultimately picked 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.

On the Tydings Committee, Lodge and the strongly [[conservative]] Republican [[Bourke B. Hickenlooper]] refused to sign a report which cleared the [[State Department]] of wrongdoing.<ref>[http://uipress.lib.uiowa.edu/bdi/DetailsPage.aspx?id=172 Hickenlooper, Bourke Blakemore]. ''The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa''. Retrieved May 28, 2021.</ref>

On the Tydings Committee, Lodge and the strongly [[conservative]] Republican [[Bourke B. Hickenlooper]] refused to sign a report which cleared the [[State Department]] of wrongdoing.<ref>[http://uipress.lib.uiowa.edu/bdi/DetailsPage.aspx?id=172 Hickenlooper, Bourke Blakemore]. ''The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa''. Retrieved May 28, 2021.</ref>