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HENRY CABOT LODGE (1850– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 860 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:CABOT See also:LODGE (1850– )  , See also:American See also:political See also:leader and author, was See also:born in See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts, on the 12th of May 185o . He graduated at Harvard See also:College in 1871 and at the Harvard See also:Law School in 1875; was admitted to the See also:Suffolk (Massachusetts) See also:bar in 1876; and in 1876–1879 was instructor in American See also:history at Harvard . He was a member of the Massachusetts See also:House of Representatives in 188o–1881, and of the See also:National House of Representatives in 1887–1893; succeeded See also:Henry L . See also:Dawes as See also:United States Senator from Massachusetts in 1893; and in 1899 and in 1905 was re-elected to the See also:Senate, where he became one of the most prominent of the Republican leaders, and an influential supporter of See also:President See also:Roosevelt . He was a member of the Alaskan Boundary See also:Commission of 1903, and of the United States See also:Immigration Commission of 1907 . In the National Republican See also:Convention of 1896 his See also:influence did much to secure the See also:adoption of the See also:gold See also:standard " See also:plank " of the party's See also:platform . He was the permanent chairman of the National Republican Convention of 1900, and of that of 1908 . In 1874–1876 he edited the See also:North American See also:Review with Henry See also:Adams; and in 1879–1882, with See also:John T . See also:Morse, Jr., he edited the See also: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 .

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

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