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George Cabot Lodge II was an American academic and politician. In 1962, he was the Republican nominee for a special election to succeed John F. Kennedy in the United States Senate, but was defeated by Ted Kennedy. He was the son of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who lost reelection to the Senate in 1952 to John F. Kennedy. His father was also the vice presidential nominee for the Republican party in 1960, an election won yet again by Kennedy.

Early life
Lodge was born on July 7, 1927, in Boston. His father was Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., a United States Senator from Massachusetts, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and South Vietnam, and the Republican nominee for Vice President in 1960. After finishing high school at Groton School, Lodge served in the U.S. Navy from 1945–1946, and then entered Harvard College, graduating cum laude in 1950. While at Harvard, he was a member of the Krokodiloes. ==Career==
Career
Lodge was a political reporter and columnist at the Boston Herald prior to entering federal civil service. and was re-appointed by John F. Kennedy in 1961. He was the United States Delegate to the International Labour Organization, and was elected chairman of the organization's Governing Body in 1960. ==Personal life and death==
Personal life and death
Lodge met his first wife, Nancy Kunhardt, daughter of author Dorothy Kunhardt, while she was studying at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and they married in 1949. They had six children. Emily Lodge has written two books, a Lodge family history and a memoir of her time living in the Middle East. After his first wife's death in 1997, Lodge married Susan Alexander Powers, who died in 2024. Lodge died on January 4, 2026, at the age of 98. ==Archives and records==
Archives and records
• George Cabot Lodge papers at Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School ==Ancestry==
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