Lodge (Henry Cabot) is born in Boston.

May 12, 1850

[5/15] The son of John Ellerton and Anna (Cabot) Lodge, Henry Cabot Lodge is born on Winthrop Place (then Otis Place), graduates from Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and receives the first Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University. He becomes assistant editor of the North American Review, lectures at Harvard, and writes more than a dozen books, many of them political biographies. Described as “Boston Incarnate,” Lodge represents Nahant in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1880-81), serves in Congress (1887-93) and the U.S. Senate (1893-1924), and becomes an opponent of immigration and a proponent of trade protections and foreign policy expansionism. Lodge dies in Boston on November 9, 1924, and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Sources
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  • Encyclopedia of American History
  • Encyclopedia of American Biography