Henry Cabot Lodge

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(b. Boston, Massachusetts, 12 May 1850; d. 9 Nov. 1924) US; member of the US House of Representatives 1887 – 93; US Senator 1893 – 1924Lodge was educated at Dixwell's Latin School, graduated BA from Harvard and LLB from Harvard Law School. He was called to the Boston bar 1874 and, after a brief period as assistant editor of the North American Review, he combined a lectureship in history at Harvard with an assistant editorship of the International Review. His political career began with his election to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1879. In 1887 he was elected to the US House of Representatives. He remained in the House for six years until, in 1893, he followed in the footsteps of his great grandfather George Cabot, and was elected US Senator for Massachusetts.

Lodge, a staunch Republican and patriot, achieved his first political ambition, becoming chairman of the prestigious Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Fulfilment of the greatest ambition, to become President of his country, eluded him, despite Theodore Roosevelt's strong endorsement of his candidacy for his party's nomination in 1916.

Lodge's patriotism bordered on jingoism. He was an avid believer in the destiny of his country, an unwavering advocate of the Munroe Doctrine and a declared Anglophobe. He is perhaps best remembered for the part he played, as majority leader and chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, in the Senate's refusal to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and, therefore, of America's failure to participate in the League of Nations.

Lodge, lacking charisma and a following outside New England, was never a popular national figure. He did, however, personify the gentleman and scholar in politics. He published Early Memoirs (1913) — a volume in which he described and accounted for his deep hostility to England.

Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), American political leader, was one of the important Senate foes of the League of Nations.

Henry Cabot Lodge was born in Boston of parents from distinguished families. He received a bachelor's degree at Harvard, where he also earned a law degree and a doctorate in philosophy. From 1873 to 1876 he was assistant editor of the North American Review, which published his doctoral thesis, "The Anglo-Saxon Land Law." Subsequently he wrote several readable, but decidedly partisan, histories and biographies. Meanwhile he served two terms in the Massachusetts Legislature and was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1886.

As a congressman for 6 years and a senator for 30, Lodge was a curious mixture of reformer and conservative. He was intelligent, informed, and agile, but he lacked warmth and spontaneity. His letters reveal a man as calculating in the small things as in the large and predisposed to read the meanest motives into others. Yet he had an overview, and though he assiduously cultivated his constituents' interests, he also fostered the national interest as he understood it.

Lodge was a strong and consistent supporter of civil service reform, the protective tariff, and "sound" currency. Partly because he hoped to build up the Republican party in the South, he tried to protect the African American man's right to vote through the so-called Force Bill of the 1890s. Though always solicitous of legitimate business interests, he helped draft the momentous Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. He supported most of the other regulatory measures of the Progressive era, including the Pure Food and Drug Act. In 1906 he drafted the "pipe line amendment" to the Hepburn Act, which put private oil lines under the supervision of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

In common with other imperialists, Lodge believed that American expansion was necessary for economic progress. "Commerce follows the flag, " he exclaimed. "The great nations are rapidly absorbing …all the waste places of the earth.… The United States must not fall out of the line of march." Accordingly, he gave vigorous support to a strong navy, territorial acquisition, and power politics. He endorsed President Grover Cleveland's hard line against Great Britain in the Venezuela crisis of 1895, trumpeted for the annexation of Hawaii, became a leading advocate of war in 1898, and urged annexation of the Philippines at the end of the Spanish-American War. Thereafter he consistently supported the assertive Caribbean policy of his friend Theodore Roosevelt. When he served as one of the American representatives on the Alaskan Boundary Commission of 1903, his partisanship was especially rank.

Though Lodge had considerable knowledge of international law and tended to cloak his words in moralistic phraseology, he was governed by an absolute and often shortsighted commitment to American material interests. He first broke with President Woodrow Wilson over Wilson's refusal to be sufficiently aggressive (by Lodge's standards) toward Mexico. Then, from 1915 to 1917, he chafed over Wilson's neutrality policies and reluctance to arm the nation for war against Germany. Lodge believed that Germany, if victorious, would compromise American commercial interests in Latin America and elsewhere and would supplant Anglo-American culture throughout the world.

Lodge's successful fight against the Versailles Treaty and League of Nations Covenant in 1919 and 1920 was doubtless intensified by his personal disdain for Wilson and his fierce partisanship. But basically Lodge was moved by his fear that the League would compromise American sovereignty. Thus in 1922 he opposed American membership in the World Court even though it was urged by the Republican president, Warren G. Harding. Lodge died in 1924 at the age of 74, survived by a son and daughter.

Further Reading

Useful for Lodge's early years is his own Early Memories (1913). There is much rich material in Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt, Selections from the Correspondence, 1884-1918 (2 vols., 1925). Since Lodge changed many of the letters for publication, however, the book is best used in consultation with the standard biography by John A. Garraty, Henry Cabot Lodge (1953). Other studies are William Lawrence, Henry Cabot Lodge: A Biographical Sketch (1925), and Karl Schriftgiesser, The Gentleman from Massachusetts: Henry Cabot Lodge (1944).

Additional Sources

Lodge, Henry Cabot, Early memories, New York: Arno Press, 1975, 1913.

• Born: May 12, 1850, Boston, Mass.
• Political party: Republican
• Education: Harvard University, graduated, 1871; Harvard Law School, graduated, 1874; Harvard University, Ph.D, 1876
• Representative from Massachusetts: 1887–93
• Senator from Massachusetts: 1893–1924
• President pro tempore: 1911–13
• Senate majority leader: 1919–24
• Died: Nov. 9, 1924, Cambridge, Mass.

A scholar in politics, Henry Cabot Lodge taught history at Harvard before he was elected to Congress. Known to be strong in his dislikes, Lodge displayed a deep antagonism toward another scholar in politics, Woodrow Wilson, who became President in 1913. Recognizing that a split in the Republican party in the 1912 election had put a Democrat in the White House, Lodge worked to reunite his party and defeat Wilson. When the Republicans regained the majority in the Senate in the 1918 elections, Lodge, as majority leader and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, was determined to deny Wilson and the Democratic party the triumph of writing the treaty that ended World War I. Lodge added a series of Republican reservations to Wilson's Treaty of Versailles. Such reservations could alter the interpretation of the treaty and could affect whether the other parties to the treaty would still accept it. Wilson, an equally stubborn man, refused to compromise and took his case directly to the people.

Without the compromise offered by the Republican reservations, the Senate twice defeated the Treaty of Versailles. Republicans triumphed in the elections of 1920, but victory also brought disappointment. Despite Lodge' objections to the treaty, he wanted the United States to play a strong role in international affairs. Instead, his policies resulted in the United States's embrace of isolationism during the decades between the world wars.

See also Treaty of Versailles

Sources

• John A. Garraty, Henry Cabot Lodge: A Biography (New York: Knopf, 1968).
• William C. Widenor, “Henry Cabot Lodge: The Astute Parliamentarian”, in First among Equals: Outstanding Senate Leaders of the Twentieth Century, edited by Richard A. Baker and Roger H. Davidson (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1991)

Henry Cabot Lodge helped write the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 (15 U.S.C.A. §1 et seq.). He was an enthusiastic supporter of the Spanish-American War of 1898 and advocated military power as the United States' best tactic for peace. He believed firmly in the principles of the Monroe Doctrine, by which the United States sought to protect nations in the Western Hemisphere from European intrusion. Although he opposed strong control by the federal government, he believed that in some circumstances moderate government regulation was essential to prevent socialism. Lodge was a conservative Republican U.S. senator from 1893 to 1924. He successfully fought to defeat U.S. entry into President Woodrow Wilson's newly proposed League of Nations at the end of World War I. He chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1918 to 1924 and influenced U.S. foreign policy in the first quarter of the twentieth century. He also was a prolific writer, most notably of a series of biographies, and the grandfather of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., a Republican senator in 1937-44 and 1947-53.

Lodge was born May 12, 1850, in Boston. The families of his father, John Ellerton Lodge, and mother, Anna Cabot Lodge, were wealthy and of high social standing. Lodge graduated from Harvard in 1871, and married Anna Cabot Mills ("Nannie") Davis the day after his graduation ceremony. He attended Harvard Law School from 1872 to 1874, and in 1874 made his first entry into politics as a delegate to the Republican state convention.

Lodge taught American colonial history at Harvard for a year and then turned to writing, producing a biography of his great-grandfather, a colonial history, and various magazine articles, among other works. He was an editor on the International Review magazine for four years, and wrote a set of books called the American Statesman Series, on George Washington, Washington Irving, and Daniel Webster, among others.

In the late 1870s, he wrote articles on election reform, gave an Independence Day address, and served two one-year terms in the Massachusetts General Court. In 1883 he chaired the Republican State Central Committee and met Theodore Roosevelt, with whom he would remain close friends throughout his life.

Lodge was elected to the House in 1886, where he served for six years. He chaired the House Committee on Elections, sponsored the Federal Elections Bill, and introduced a bill prohibiting entry into the United States by illiterate immigrants (later vetoed by President Grover Cleveland). In 1890 Lodge helped write the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, the first federal law to control growing centralization of economic power by monopolistic corporations.

In 1893 Lodge entered the Senate, where he served until his death in 1924. As a senator he was a strong supporter of the Spanish-American War, in which two of his three sons served. He supported U.S. imperialism during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. In 1902 he helped persuade Roosevelt to appoint Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., to the U.S. Supreme Court; Holmes's fundamentally new approach to the judicial process—which rejected the notion of legal principles as absolutes—changed U.S. law. Also in the early 1900s, he sponsored a child labor law (May 28, 1908, ch. 209, 35 Stat. 420) in Washington, D.C., and an American Federation of Labor law mandating an eight-hour workday. In 1906 Lodge worked on Roosevelt's Food and Drug Act (ch. 3915, 34 Stat. 768).

From 1918 to 1924, Lodge chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and was the Senate majority leader. He also worked adamantly to foil President Wilson's efforts to establish the League of Nations. Lodge disliked both the policies and the personality of Wilson.

Wilson attempted to link the passage of his League of Nations with the signing of the peace treaty that would officially end World War I. Lodge attacked this approach, accusing Wilson of jeopardizing the peace process for the sake of his project. Lodge also was chief among Wilson's critics for two other actions by the president: First, in an era in which presidents rarely left the country, Wilson traveled to Europe to make a highly publicized case for his League of Nations. Although he was well received by the Europeans with whom he met, the trip was not favorably viewed by many in the United States. Second, he took with him a small group of men that included only Democrats, no Republicans.

In 1919 Lodge addressed the Senate about the "crudeness and looseness of expression" of the proposed League of Nations. He cited a direct conflict between Wilson's league and the Monroe Doctrine, which he said dictated that "American questions be settled by America alone." He also questioned whether the United States could follow up on some of the promises outlined in Wilson's proposal, and cited a potential loss of U.S. control over immigration.

Lodge and two other men crafted a declaration listing their objections to the proposed League of Nations, the primary ones involving congressional rights. Lodge then circulated the declaration through the Republican senators seeking signatures of support, a process called a round-robin, and received thirty-seven signatures, more than enough to indicate strong support for the declaration. Lodge led a lengthy debate on the Senate floor, followed by hearings in which a variety of representatives from around the world were allowed to testify on a broad range of topics. Witnesses spoke, for example, on Irish independence, which had little relevance to the League of Nations but which took time on the floor. Lodge also read the entire text of Wilson's proposal, which took two weeks to complete, in order to wear down Wilson and his supporters and to encourage a deadlock.

Ultimately, Congress did deadlock on the issue, and the U.S. public decided the fate of the league with the November 1920 presidential election, when James Cox, the Democratic candidate, lost to Warren G. Harding, who opposed the league.

In his last years, Lodge returned to writing and spent time with his family. He died November 9, 1924, at age seventy-four.

This article is about the U.S. politician Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924). For his grandson, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902–1985), see Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

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Henry Cabot Lodge
United States Senator from Massachusetts
In office March 4, 1893 – November 9, 1924
Preceded by	Henry L. Dawes
Succeeded by	William M. Butler
1st United States Senate Majority Leader (Unofficially)
In office 1920 – November 9, 1924
Deputy	Charles Curtis
Preceded by	N/A
Succeeded by	Charles Curtis
President pro tempore of the United States Senate
In office May 25, 1912
Preceded by	Augustus Octavius Bacon
Succeeded by	Augustus Octavius Bacon
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 6th district
In office March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1893
Preceded by	Henry B. Lovering
Succeeded by	William Everett
Born	May 12, 1850 (1850-05-12) Boston, Massachusetts
Died	November 9, 1924 (1924-11-10) (Aged 74) Cambridge, Massachusetts
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Anna Cabot Mills Davis
Alma mater	Harvard University

Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850 – November 9, 1924) was an American statesman, a Republican politician, and a noted historian.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Political Positions 3 See also 4 Notes 5 References 6 External links

Biography

Lodge, who was always known as "Cabot"^[1], was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of John Ellerton Lodge and Anna Cabot. His great-grandfather was former Senator George Cabot. Lodge grew up on Boston's Beacon Hill after spending part of his childhood in Nahant, Massachusetts.

In 1872 he graduated from Harvard College. At Harvard he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Alpha chapter) and the Porcellian Club. He also was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club and took part in an early show. After traveling through Europe, Lodge returned to Harvard where he became the first student of Harvard University to graduate with a Ph.D. in History. His teacher and mentor during his graduate studies was Henry Adams; Lodge would maintain a lifelong friendship with Adams. Lodge wrote his dissertation on the ancient Germanic origins of Anglo-Saxon government. Throughout his career, Lodge would be a vocal proponent of the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race.^{[citation needed]}

On 25 June 1871, he married Anna "Nannie" Cabot Mills Davis^[2], the daughter of Admiral Charles Henry Davis and granddaughter of U.S. Senator Elijah Hunt Mills. His wife's maternal aunt was married to mathematician Benjamin Peirce and the mother of Charles Peirce.^[3] Cabot and Nannie had three children, Constance Davis Lodge (b. 6 April 1872), the noted poet George Cabot Lodge (b. 10 October 1873) and John Ellerton Lodge (b. 1 August 1876), an art curator^[4]. He also graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1874 and was admitted to the bar in 1875. In 1880-1881, Lodge served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Lodge represented his home state in the United States House of Representatives from 1887 to 1893 and in the Senate from 1893 to 1924.

Lodge died in 1924 of stroke at the age of 74. He was interred in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Political Positions

Lodge was early on associated with the conservative faction of the Republican Party. He was a staunch supporter of the gold standard, vehemently opposing the populists and the silverites, who were led by the left-wing Democrat William Jennings Bryan. Lodge was a strong backer of U.S. intervention in Cuba in 1898, arguing that it was the moral responsibility of the United States to do so:

Of the sympathies of the American people, generous, liberty-loving, I have no question. They are with the Cubans in their struggle for freedom. I believe our people would welcome any action on the part of the United States to put an end to the terrible state of things existing there. We can stop it. We can stop it peacefully. We can stop it, in my judgment, by pursuing a proper diplomacy and offering our good offices. Let it once be understood that we mean to stop the horrible state of things in Cuba and it will be stopped. The great power of the United States, if it is once invoked and uplifted, is capable of greater things than that.

Following American victory in the Spanish-American War, Lodge came to represent the imperialist faction of the Senate, those who called for the annexation of the Philippines. Lodge maintained that the United States needed to have a strong navy and be more involved in foreign affairs. He was a staunch advocate of entering World War I on the side of the Allied Powers, attacking President Woodrow Wilson's perceived lack of military preparedness and accusing pacifists of undermining American patriotism. After the United States entered the war, Lodge continued to attack Wilson as hopelessly idealistic, assailing Wilson's Fourteen Points as unrealistic and weak. He contended that Germany needed to be militarily and economically crushed and saddled with harsh penalties so that it could never again be a threat to the stability of Europe.

As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Lodge led the successful fight against American participation in the League of Nations, which had been proposed by President Woodrow Wilson at the close of World War I. He also served as chairman of the Senate Republican Conference from 1918 to 1924. During his term in office, he and another powerful senator, Albert J. Beveridge, pushed for the construction of a new navy.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Lodge maintained that membership in the world peacekeeping organization would threaten the political freedom of the United States by binding the nation to international commitments it would not or could not keep. Lodge did not, however, object to the United States interfering in other nations' affairs, and was in actuality a proponent of imperialism (see Lodge Committee for further explanation). In fact, Lodge's key objection to the League of Nations was Article X, the provision of the League of Nations charter that required all signatory nations to make efforts to repel aggression of any kind. Lodge perceived an open-ended commitment to deploy soldiers into conflict regardless of it being relevant to the national security interests of the United States. He did not want America to have this obligation. Lodge was also motivated by political concerns; he strongly disliked Woodrow Wilson^[5] and was eager to find an issue for the Republican Party to run on in 1920.

Senator Lodge argued in 1919 against the League:

The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her powerful good, and endanger her very existence. Leave her to march freely through the centuries to come, as in the years that have gone. Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance; this great land of ordered liberty. For if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.^[6]

Lodge appealed to the patriotism of American citizens by objecting to what he saw as the erosion of national sovereignty: "I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for a league." The League of Nations was established without U.S. participation in 1920. With headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, it remained active until World War II. After the war, it was replaced by the United Nations, which assumed many of the League's procedures and peacekeeping functions, although Article X of the League of Nations was notably absent from the UN mandate. Lodge's grandson and namesake served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1953 to 1960.

Lodge was also a vocal supporter of immigration restrictions and the assimilation of foreigners. The public voice of the Immigration Restriction League, Lodge argued on behalf of literacy tests for incoming immigrants, appealing to fears that unskilled foreign labor was undermining the standard of living for American workers and that a mass influx of uneducated immigrants would result in social conflict and national decline. Lodge was alarmed that large numbers of immigrants, primarily from Eastern and Southern Europe, were flooding into industrial centers, where the poverty of their home countries was being perpetuated and crime rates were rapidly rising. Lodge observed that these immigrants were "people whom it is very difficult to assimilate and do not promise well for the standard of civilization in the United States." He felt that the United States should temporarily shut out all further entries, particularly persons of low education or skill, in order to more efficiently assimilate the millions who had come. From 1907 to 1911, he served on the Dillingham Commission, a joint congressional committee established to study the era's immigration patterns and make recommendations to Congress based on its findings. The Commission's recommendations led to the Immigration Act of 1917. It should be remembered, however, that Lodge was no rampant xenophobe, remarking once that "It [the U.S. flag] is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the man whose people have been here many generations."

Lodge, along with Theodore Roosevelt, was a supporter of "100% Americanism." In an address to the New England Society of Brooklyn in 1888, Lodge stated:

Let every man honor and love the land of his birth and the race from which he springs and keep their memory green. It is a pious and honorable duty. But let us have done with British-Americans and Irish-Americans and German-Americans, and so on, and all be Americans...If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

See also

• George Cabot Lodge, poet, son of Henry Cabot Lodge
• Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., politician, grandson of Henry Cabot Lodge
• Lodge Committee

Notes

1. ^ Zimmermann (2002) p. 156
2. ^ Zimmermann (2002) p. 157
3. ^ Adams (1911) p. 5
4. ^ Rand (1890) p. 381
5. ^ H. W. Brands
6. ^ Henry Cabot Lodge - Against the League of Nations at www2.volstate.edu

References

• Adams, Henry (1911). The Life of George Cabot Lodge. Boston and New York,: Houghton Mifflin. http://www.archive.org/details/georgecabotlodge00liferich. Retrieved 20 November 2009. 
• Hewes, James E. Jr. (August 20, 1970). "Henry Cabot Lodge and the League of Nations". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (American Philosophical Society) Vol. 114 (No. 4): 245-255. 
• Rand, John Clark (1890). One of a thousand: a series of biographical sketches of one thousand representative men resident in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, A.D. 1888-'89. First national publishing. http://books.google.com/books?id=cT_jFlh_0vgC. Retrieved 20 November 2009. 
• [|Zimmermann, Warren] (2002). First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0-374-17939-5. 
• Library of Congress: "Today in History: May 12"
• Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. Against the League of Nations
• For Intervention in Cuba
• Henry Cabot Lodge at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

External links

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• Works by Lodge at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Henry Cabot Lodge in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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