- Republican U.S. senator from Massachusetts (3 January 1937-3 February 1944 and 3 January 1947-3 January 1953). Resigned 3 February 1944 to enter military service with U.S. Army. Reelected to Senate in 1946.
- Republican nominee in 1960 for Vice-President of the United States
- U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, February 1953-3 September 1960. Resigned position to run for vice-president of U.S.
- Ambasador to South Vietnam under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1967).
- Brother of actor John Lodge.
- Lost his seat in the U.S. Seante to Congressman John F. Kennedy in 1952. Later, as Richard Nixon's running mate, they lost to J.F.K. and Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960 presidential election.
- Uncle of Lily Lodge.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 501-504. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
- Tutored by Thomas Russell Sullivan. Lodge later attacked the reputation of Sullivan's great-grandfather, Revolutionary War General John Sullivan, in his history of the War.
- Inducted into the Beverly [Massachusetts] Hall of Fame in 1960.
- Grandson of Henry Cabot Lodge.
- United States ambassador-at-large, 1967-1968.
- U.S. ambassador to West Germany 1968-1969.
- Serve as special envoy to the Vatican, 1970-1977.
- First United States Senator since the Civil War to leave the Senate in order to go to war.
- Served as head of the American delegation to the Vietnam peace negotiations in Paris, France until December 1969.
- Interred in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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