Lodge family

Lodge
Ethnicity	British
Current region	United States
Information
Connected families	Cabot Frelinghuysen

The Lodge family was part of the Boston Brahmin, also known as the "first families of Boston," and a prominent political family.

History

The Boston Brahmin Lodge family primarily descended from the Cabot family. George Cabot had a granddaughter named Anna Cabot (b. 1821)^[1] whose son Henry Cabot Lodge (b. 1850 in Boston)^[1] was a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, who was reelected for the same senate seat as the incumbent 1916 U.S. Senate candidate against the Kennedy brothers' maternal grandfather, John F. Fitzgerald. George's great-great-great grandson, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (b. 1902 in Nanhunt)^[2] was also a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, incumbent 1952 U.S. Senate candidate from Massachusetts against John F. Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to United Nations, and 1960 vice presidential candidate for Richard Nixon against John F. Kennedy-Lyndon B. Johnson. George's other great-great-great grandson, John Davis Lodge (b. 1903 in Washington, DC)^[3] was the 64th Governor of Connecticut. George's great-great-great-great grandson, George Cabot Lodge II (b. 1927) was the 1962 U.S. Senate candidate from Massachusetts against Edward M. Kennedy.

It became connected to other prominent families through marriage.

Notable members

Anna Cabot (b. 1821)^[1]
- Henry Cabot Lodge (b. 1850 in Boston)^[1] - U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and ardent opponent of Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations
  - George Cabot Lodge (b. 1873 in Boston) - poet
    - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (b. 1902 in Nanhunt)^[2] - U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, incumbent 1952 U.S. Senate candidate from Massachusetts against John F. Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to United Nations, and 1960 vice presidential candidate for Richard Nixon against John F. Kennedy-Lyndon B. Johnson
      - George Cabot Lodge II (b. 1927) - Harvard Business School professor, 1962 U.S. Senate candidate from Massachusetts against Edward M. Kennedy
    - John Davis Lodge (b. 1903 in Washington, DC)^[3] - 64th Governor of Connecticut
  - John Ellerton Lodge - oriental art and language scholar, first curator of Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Henry Cabot Lodge Photographs ca. 1860-1945: Guide to the Photograph Collection". Massachusetts Historical Society Library. http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fap044. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
^ ^a ^b "LODGE, Henry Cabot, Jr., (1902 - 1985)". Biogrpahical Directory of the United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=l000394. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
^ ^a ^b "LODGE, John Davis, (1903 - 1985)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000395. Retrieved July 29, 2011.