| George Cabot Lodge II | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 7, 1927 |
| Education | Harvard College (1950) |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Parents | Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Emily Esther Sears Clark |
George Cabot Lodge II (born July 7, 1927)[1] is an American professor and former politician.
His father was Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, U.S. Ambassador to United Nations and South Vietnam, and 1960 vice presidential candidate for Richard Nixon against John F. Kennedy-Lyndon B. Johnson.[2] His mother was Emily Esther Sears Clark. He had one sibling: Henry Sears Lodge (b. 1930).
Lodge served in the U.S. Navy from 1945-1946. In 1950, he graduated cum laude from Harvard College.[3]
Lodge was a political reporter and columnist at the Boston Herald.[3]
In 1954, Lodge became Director of Information at the U.S. Department of Labor. In 1958, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of Labor for International Affairs by Dwight D. Eisenhower,[4] and was reappointed by John F. Kennedy in 1961. He was the United States Delegate to the International Labor Organization and was elected chairman of the organization's Governing Body in 1960.[3]
He later entered politics and was the 1962 U.S. Senate candidate from Massachusetts against Edward M. Kennedy, marking the second time in history that the Lodges faced the Kennedys in a Massachusetts election. Previously, Lodge's father was the incumbent 1952 U.S. Senate candidate from Massachusetts against John F. Kennedy. Additionally, Lodge's great-grandfather, Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. was reelected for the same senate seat as the incumbent 1916 U.S. Senate candidate against the Kennedy brothers' maternal grandfather, John F. Fitzgerald.
In 1963, Lodge joined the Harvard Business School faculty. In 1968, he was named Associate Professor of Business Administration. In 1972, Lodge received tenure. He is currently the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus.