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HENRY CABOT LODGE


Henry Cabot Lodge, of Nahant, was born in Boston, Mass., May 12, 1850; received a private-school and collegiate education; was graduated from Harvard College in 1871; studied law at Harvard Law School and graduated in 1875, receiving the degree of LL. B.; was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1876; profession, that of literature; served two terms as member of the house of representatives of the Massachusetts legislature; was elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-First, Fifty-Second, and Fifty-Third Congresses; was elected to the Senate January 17, 1893, to succeed Henry L. Dawes; resigned his seat in the House and took his seat in the Senate March 4, 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899.