Henry Cabot Lodge

(noun)

Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850 – November 9, 1924) was an American Republican Senator and historian from Massachusetts. He is best known for his positions on foreign policy, including his opposition to U.S. involvement in WWI, and his battle with President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 over the Treaty of Versailles. Lodge demanded Congressional control of declarations of war; Wilson refused and the United States Senate never ratified the Treaty nor joined the League of Nations.

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Examples of Henry Cabot Lodge in the following topics:

  • Wilson's Loss at Home

    • The Republican Party—led by Henry Cabot Lodge—controlled the U.S.
    • One block of Democrats strongly supported the Versailles Treaty, even with reservations added by Lodge.
    • The largest bloc—led by Senator Lodge— comprised a majority of the Republicans.
    • The closest the Treaty came to passage was on November 19, 1919, as Lodge and his Republicans formed a coalition with the pro-Treaty Democrats and were close to a two-thirds majority for a Treaty with reservations.
    • Senator Henry Cabot Lodge led the Irreconcilables, who blocked approval of the Treaty of Versailles in America.

  • The Paris Peace Conference

    • The Republican Party, led by Henry Cabot Lodge, controlled the U.S.
    • One bloc of Democrats strongly supported the Versailles Treaty, even with reservations added by Lodge.
    • The largest bloc, led Lodge, comprised a majority of the Republicans who wanted a treaty with reservations, especially on Article X, which involved the power of the League of Nations to make war without a vote by the U.S.
    • The closest the treaty came to passage in Congress was on November 19, 1919, as Lodge and his fellow Republicans formed a coalition with pro-treaty Democrats and were close to a two-thirds majority for a treaty with reservations.
    • Senator Henry Cabot Lodge led the Irreconcilables, who blocked approval of the Treaty of Versailles in the U.S.

  • The League of Nations

    • The Republican Party, led by Henry Cabot Lodge, controlled the U.S.
    • One bloc of Democrats strongly supported the Versailles Treaty, even with reservations added by Lodge.
    • The largest bloc, led by Lodge, wanted a treaty with reservations, especially on Article X, which involved the power of the League of Nations to make war without a vote by the U.S.
    • Senator Henry Cabot Lodge led the Irreconcilables, a group of legislators who blocked approval of the Treaty of Versailles in the U.S.

  • Shuttle Diplomacy

    • The term was first applied to describe the efforts of United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, beginning November 5, 1973, which facilitated the cessation of hostilities following the Yom Kippur War.
    • [Henry Cabot Lodge], an old friend serving as Ambassador to Saigon, had asked me to visit Vietnam as his consultant.
    • Lodge gave me a free hand to look into any subject of my choice. "

  • The Fight for the Treaty

    • Republicans under Senator Henry Cabot Lodge controlled both houses of Congress after the 1918 elections.
    • The largest bloc, led by Senator Lodge, comprised a majority of the Republicans.
    • The closest the Treaty came to passage came in mid-November 1919, when Lodge and his Republicans formed a coalition with the pro-Treaty Democrats, and were close to a two-thirds majority for a Treaty, with reservations.
    • Some suggest that Wilson's stroke on September 25, 1919 had so altered his personality that he was unable to effectively negotiate with Lodge.

  • Republican Reform Under Harrison

    • Henry Cabot Lodge sponsored a so-called Lodge Bill that would have established federal supervision of congressional elections so as to prevent the disfranchisement of southern blacks.
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  • The Election of 1952

    • When the 1952 Republican National Convention opened in Chicago, Eisenhower's managers, led by Thomas Dewey and Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., accused Taft's leaders of unfairly denying delegate spots to Eisenhower supporters.
    • Lodge and Dewey proposed to evict the pro-Taft delegates in these states and replace them with pro-Eisenhower delegates.

  • Toward Immigration Restriction

    • Congress passed literacy test legislation, with proponents such as Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge arguing that it could benefit overall immigration policy.

  • The Election of 1960

    • Nixon chose United Nations Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. to be his running mate.

  • American Isolationism

    • A group of Senators known as the Irreconcilables, identifying with both William Borah and Henry Cabot Lodge, had great objections regarding the clauses of the treaty which compelled America to come to the defense of other nations.
    • Lodge, echoing Wilson, issued 14 Reservations regarding the treaty; among them, the second argued that America would sign only with the understanding that: