LODGE, Henry Cabot, American states man and historian: b. Boston, 12 May 1850. He was graduated at Harvard in 1871 and from the Law School there in 1874. From 1873 to 1876 he edited the North American Review. In the three years following he lec tured on American history at Harvard and in 1879-81 edited the International Review. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1880-81, member of Con gress 1886-93 and thereafter United States senator from Massachusetts, being re-elected in 1899, 1905, 1911 and 1917. He was perma nent chairman of the Republican National Convention of 1900 at Philadelphia. chairman of the committee on resolutions of the Chicago Republican Convention of 1904 and permanent chairman of the Republican National Convention of 1908 at Chicago. He was a member of the Alaska Boundary Commission: was regent of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-93, and again appointed regent in 1905. In politics he is a Re publican of conservative tendency; was a staunch supporter of the McKinley administra tion during the war with Spain. He has fa vored laws to safeguard the franchise and has advocated an educational test law for immi grants. He is a member of the American
Institute of Arts and Letters and many other societies and has 'received academic honors from several of the leading American universi ties. His published works include Land Law of the Anglo-Saxons) (1877); 'Life and Letters of George Cabot' (1881) ; 'Short His tory of the English Colonies in America) (1882); (Life of Alexander Hamilton) (1883); 'Life of Daniel (1885); editor of Alexander Hamilton' (9 vols., 1886) ; in History) (1889); 'Life of Washington' (2 vols., 1891) ; of Bos ton' (1892) ; and Political Essays) (1895); Tales from American History,' with Theodore Roosevelt (1897); 'Certain Ac cepted (1898); of the Revolu tion) (2 vols., 1892); 'Story of the Spanish War, 'A Fighting Frigate' (1906); (A Fron tier Town and Other (1910); and Addresses 1884-1909' (1913) ; 'Early Memories' (1915); (One Hundred Years of Peace) (1915) ; (The Democracy of the Constitution and Other Essays' (1915).