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Brief bio on Senator Lodge, the first U.S.
Senator to go to war since the Civil War:
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., graduated from Harvard
University in 1924; member, Massachusetts State legislature 1933-1936;
elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1936;
reelected in 1942, and served while also joining the Army in
1942. He resigned his Senate seat on February 3, 1944, to go
overseas during World War II with the 2nd Armored Division; the
first United States Senator since the Civil War to leave the
Senate in order to go to war; served in the Mediterranean and
European Theaters, rising to lieutenant colonel; again elected
to the United States Senate in 1946 and served to 1953; later
appointed United States representative to the United Nations
from February 1953 until 1960; ; Ambassador to Republic of Vietnam
1963-1964; again appointed Ambassador to Vietnam 1965-1967; United
States Ambassador at Large 1967-1968; Ambassador to Germany 1968-1969;
appointed by President Richard Nixon to serve as head of the
American delegation to the Vietnam peace negotiations in Paris,
France, and served until December 1969; appointed by President
Nixon to serve as special envoy to the Vatican 1970-1977; died
in Beverly, Mass., February 27, 1985.
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