Henry Cabot Lodge was an American Republican Senator and historian from Massachusetts. He received his PhD in history from Harvard. He was a long-time friend of Theodore Roosevelt. He had the role of the first Senate Majority Leader. He is best known for his positions on foreign policy, especially his battle with President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 over the Treaty of Versailles.
He was one of the best informed statesmen of his time, he was an excellent parliamentarian, and he brought to bear on foreign questions a mind that was at once razor sharp and devoid of much of the moral cant that was so typical of the age. He was opportunistic, selfish, jealous, condescending, supercilious (I love that word),a nd could never resist calling his opponent's spade a dirty shovel. Except for Roosevelt and Root, most of his colleagues of both parties disliked him, and many distrusted him.
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