Henry Cabot Lodge – 1850-1924

Like his chief rival, Woodrow Wilson, Lodge held a Ph.D. in political science and had been a college professor. In 1893, he was elected senator from Massachusetts and served until his death in 1924. An advocate of isolationism, he successfully opposed Wilson’s attempt to bring the United States into the League of Nations after World War I. Lodge’s opposition ushered in a Republicandominated period of U.S. withdrawal from world affairs.