Henry Cabot Lodge Sr.

Birth Name:

Henry Cabot Lodge

Birth Date:

May 12, 1850

Birth Place:

Beverly, Massachusetts

Death Date:

November 9, 1924

Place of Death:

Charlesgate Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Age:

Cause of Death:

Stroke

Cemetery Name:

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Claim to Fame:

Historical Figure

With four degrees from Harvard and a highly published historian, Henry Cabot Lodge was an American Republican politician, historian, and statesman from Massachusetts. He served in the United States Senate from 1893 to 1924 and is best known for his positions on foreign policy including his successful crusade against Woodrow Wilson's Treaty of Versailles ensured that the United States never joined the League of Nations and his reservations against that treaty influenced the structure of the modern United Nations.

Historian George E. Mowry had an interesting take on Lodge:

Henry Cabot Lodge was one of the best informed statesmen of his time, he was an excellent parliamentarian, and he brought to bear on foreign questions a mind that was at once razor sharp and devoid of much of the moral cant that was so typical of the age. Yet Lodge never made the contributions he should have made, largely because of Lodge the person. He was opportunistic, selfish, jealous, condescending, supercilious, and could never resist calling his opponent’s spade a dirty shovel. Small wonder that except for Roosevelt and Root, most of his colleagues of both parties disliked him, and many distrusted him.

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

Mount Auburn Cemetery

580 Mount Auburn Street

Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138

USA

North America

Map:

Grave Location:

Oxalis Path, Lot 3613, Mausoleum 13, Site SH3613, Space 1

Grave Location Description

Using the Mount Auburn Map, drive towards the two lakes and park on the bridge on Rosebay Avenue. Facing the open-air mausoleum, walk towards the structure and turn left on Oxalis Path. The brown Cabot and Lodge family mausoleum is approximately 100 feet down the path along the hillside.