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 HENRY CABOT LODGE ODGE, HENRY CABOT, statesman, orator, historian, author, and editor; was born in Boston, Massachusetts, May 12, 1850. His father, John Ellerton Lodge, was a son of Giles Lodge, who was a native of England, came to Massachusetts colony in 1792, and married Mary Langdon. His mother, Anna Cabot Lodge, was the daughter of Henry and Anna Sophia (Blake) Cabot, granddaughter of the Honorable George Cabot (1751-1823) sea captain, member of the Provisional congress of Massachusetts, of the state convention of 1788, United States senator, 1791-96, the first secretary of the navy, 1798, and president of the Hartford convention, 1814. His first ancestor in America, John Cabot, came from the island of Jersey to Massachusetts Bay colony about 1675 and settled in Salem. Henry Cabot Lodge attended the best schools of Boston, including the celebrated Latin schools of Thomas Russell Sullivan and Epes Sargent Dixwell, and he was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1871, LL.B., 1874, and Ph.D. (history) 1876. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1876, but did not practise law, deciding to devote himself to literature and to the public service as a legislator. He was elected from the tenth Essex district a member of the General Court of Massachusetts in 1879-80, and was chairman of the committee on Bills in the Third Reading and a member of the committee on the Judiciary and of the joint special committee on the Public Service. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention which met at Chicago, June 2, 1880, and nominated Garfield and Arthur, and he was made secretary of the Massachusetts delegation. He was a member of the Republican state central committee from the first Essex district, and served as chairman of the Finance committee, 1880-81. He was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for state senator in 1881, receiving one hundred and fifty votes less than his Greenback-Democrat opponent. In 1882 he failed to receive the Republican nomination for representative from the sixth Massachusetts district to the forty-eighth Congress, after a caucus that began September 28. On the first ballot of the convention he received thirty-eight votes. The convention sat all that day and