Early Life
His father was Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, U.S. Ambassador to United Nations and South Vietnam, and 1960 vice presidential candidate for Richard Nixon against John F. Kennedy-Lyndon B. Johnson. His mother was Emily Esther Sears Clark. He had one sibling: Henry Sears Lodge (b. 1930).
Lodge served in the U.S. Navy from 1945-1946. In 1950, he graduated cum laude from Harvard College.
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