Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (5 July 1902 – 27 February 1985) was a US Senator from Massachusetts (R) from 3 January 1937 to 3 February 1944 (succeeding Marcus A. Coolidge and preceding Sinclair Weeks) and from 3 January 1947 to 3 January 1953 (succeeding David I. Walsh and preceding John F. Kennedy) and US Ambassador to the United Nations from 26 January 1953 to 3 September 1960 (succeeding Warren Austin and preceding James Jeremiah Wadsworth).
Biography[]
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was born in Nahant, Massachusetts in 1902, the grandson of Henry Cabot Lodge and the great-grandson of Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen. After graduating from Harvard University, he was elected to the State House, and he was elected to the US Senate in 1936 as a Republican. He resigned in 1944 to serve in Italy and France during World War II, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army; he later reached the rank of Major-General in the Army Reserve. In 1946, he defeated Democratic senator David I. Walsh to return to the Senate, and he served as manager for Dwight D. Eisenhower's successful 1952 presidential campaign. However, Lodge lost his own re-election campaign to John F. Kennedy. He served as ambassador to the United Nations from 1953 to 1960, and he was chosen as Richard Nixon's 1960 vice-presidential running mate, only to again lose to Kennedy. In 1963, however, President Kennedy appointed Lodge to serve as ambassador to South Vietnam, and he helped to orchestrate the 1963 South Vietnamese coup. He continued to serve in that post until 1967, and he then served as ambassador to West Germany from 1968 to 1969 and to the Vatican City from 1970 to 1977. He died in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1985.