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Henry Cabot Lodge
1850–1924
A powerful voice in American politics at the turn of the 20th century, he helped shape debates over empire, foreign policy, and the nation’s role in the world. He is especially remembered for his fierce opposition to U.S. entry into the League of Nations after World War I.
5 Audiobooks
George Washington, Volume I
by Henry Cabot Lodge
Hero Tales from American History
by Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt
Daniel Webster
by Henry Cabot Lodge
George Washington, Volume II
by Henry Cabot Lodge
About the author
Born in Boston in 1850, Henry Cabot Lodge was a historian, lawyer, and Republican politician who became one of Massachusetts’s most influential public figures. Educated at Harvard, he was part of an elite New England world but built a national reputation through both writing and politics.
Lodge served in the U.S. House of Representatives before spending more than three decades in the U.S. Senate. He became a leading voice on foreign policy and a close political ally of Theodore Roosevelt, supporting a more assertive American role abroad.
Today, Lodge is often remembered for his battle with President Woodrow Wilson over the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations. His resistance helped keep the United States out of the League, securing his place as a central figure in one of the defining political struggles of the postwar era.