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Today in History: Henry Cabot Lodge Is Born
05/12/10
The Harvard-educated historian and conservative Republican politician Henry Cabot Lodge was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 12, 1850. Throughout his nearly four decades as a member of the U.S. Congress, Lodge favored an interventionist foreign policy. Following the American victory in the Spanish-American War, for instance, he made a speech arguing that the United States should annex the Philippine Islands. Lodge was also a strong proponent of the United States entering World War I on the side of the Allies.
During and after the war, Lodge emerged as a harsh and persistent critic of Democratic President Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy decisions. Once the Republican Party gained control of Congress in 1918, he led efforts to obstruct Wilson’s legislative agenda. Lodge successfully opposed U.S. participation in the League of Nations, for example, and made a famous speech criticizing Wilson’s plan for world peace as unrealistic and weak.
Read HENRY CABOT LODGE’S SPEECH ON THE RETENTION OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
Read HENRY CABOT LODGE’S SPEECH OPPOSING THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Read HENRY CABOT LODGE’S SPEECH ON PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON’S PLAN FOR WORLD PEACE