Henry Cabot Lodge Henry Cabot Lodge ( May 12 , 1850 – November 9 , 1924 ), was a Republican statesman and noted historian . Lodge was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the great-grandson of George Cabot . He was the first student of Harvard University to graduate with a PhD in political science ( 1876 ). Lodge represented his home state in the United States House of Representatives from 1887 to 1893 and in the Senate from 1893 to 1924 . brainyencyclopedia