Henry Cabot Lodge (12 May 1850 – 9 November 1924) was a US Senator from Massachusetts (R) from 4 March 1893 to 9 November 1924 (succeeding Henry L. Dawes and preceding William M. Butler), having previously served as a member of the US House of Representatives (R-MA 6) from 4 March 1887 to 3 March 1893 (succeeding Henry B. Lovering and preceding William Cogswell).
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Henry Cabot Lodge was born in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1850 to a long-established and respected family, and he studied and taught law and history at Harvard before entering state politics. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1887 to 1893 and in the US Senate from 1893 to 1924 as a Republican Party member, and he became a dominant figure in senatorial politics. He was a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt, and he supported the Gold Standard and high protective tariffs. Lodge also supported the annexation of the Philippines following the Spanish-American War. A conservative Republican, he came to specialize in foreign affairs, and became chairperson of the Foreign Relations Committee. As a bitter foe of Woodrow Wilson he led the opposition to US participation in the League of Nations and the Paris Peace Conference, despite supporting US entry into World War I on the side of the Entente powers. He was a US representative at the Washington Conference on arms limitation from 1921 to 1922. Lodge died in office in 1924.