HENRY

See also:

• CABOT, GEORGE (1751–1823)
• CABOT, JOHN [GIOVANNI CABOTO] (1450-1498)

CABOT

See also:

• LODGE
• LODGE, EDMUND (1756-1839)
• LODGE, H
• HENRY CABOT LODGE (1850– )
• LODGE, SIR OLIVER JOSEPH (1851– )
• LODGE, THOMAS (c. 1558–1625)

LODGE (1850– )  , American political leader and author, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 12th of May 185o . He graduated at Harvard College in 1871 and at the Harvard Law School in 1875; was admitted to the Suffolk (Massachusetts) bar in 1876; and in 1876–1879 was instructor in American history at Harvard . He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 188o–1881, and of the National House of Representatives in 1887–1893; succeeded Henry L . Dawes as United States Senator from Massachusetts in 1893; and in 1899 and in 1905 was re-elected to the Senate, where he became one of the most prominent of the Republican leaders, and an influential supporter of President Roosevelt . He was a member of the Alaskan Boundary Commission of 1903, and of the United States Immigration Commission of 1907 . In the National Republican Convention of 1896 his influence did much to secure the adoption of the gold standard " plank " of the party's platform . He was the permanent chairman of the National Republican Convention of 1900, and of that of 1908 . In 1874–1876 he edited the North American Review with Henry Adams; and in 1879–1882, with John T . Morse, Jr., he edited the International Review . In 1884-1890 he was an overseer of Harvard College . His doctoral thesis at Harvard was published with essays by Henry Adams, J . L .

Laughlin and Ernest

Young, under the title Essays on Anglo-Saxon Land Law (1876) . He wrote: Life and Letters of George Cabot (1877); Alexander Hamilton (1882), Daniel Webster (1883) and George Washington (2 vols., 1889), in the " American States-men " series; A Short History of the English Colonies in America (1881); Studies in History (1884); Boston (1891), in the " Historic Towns " series; Historical and Political Essays (1892); with Theodore Roosevelt, Hero Tales from American History (1895); Certain Accepted Heroes (1897); The Story of the American Revolution (2 vols., 1898); The War with Spain (1899); A Fighting Frigate (1902); A Frontier Town (1906); and, with J . W . Garner, A History of the United States (4 vols., 1906) . He edited The Works of Alexander Hamilton (9 vols., 1885–1886) and The Federalist (1891) . His son, GEORGE CABOT LODGE (1873–1909), also became known as an author, with The Song of the Wave (1898), Poems, 1899–1902 (1902), The Great Adventure (1905), Cain: a Drama (1904), Herakles (1908) and other verse .