Scholar and politician, Henry Cabot Lodge was born in Boston in 1850. Lodge received one of the first PhD’s in history and government from Harvard and became a professor of history as well as editor of the North American Review. In the 1880s, he ran for political office, first in the state legislature and then the U.S. Congress. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1892, he remained in office until his death in 1924. During his Senate career, Lodge served as president pro tempore and chair of the Republican Conference (which also made him de facto majority leader). As chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the Republican Lodge opposed Democratic President Woodrow Wilson over the Treaty of Versailles, after the First World War. Lodge's opposition resulted in a bitter defeat for Wilson's goal of a strong U.S. role in the post-war League of Nations. Lodge authored many books and articles, including The Senate and the League of Nations.