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John Davis Lodge , United States Republican politician, was the 64th Governor of Connecticut from 1951 to 1955. He was also an actor and U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Argentina and Switzerland.
Lodge was born in Washington, D.C. into a prominent political family. He was the great-great-great-grandson of George Cabot, the grandson of Henry Cabot Lodge, the nephew of Augustus Peabody Gardner, the son of George Cabot Lodge and Mathilda Elizabeth Frelinghuysen (Davis) Lodge and the brother of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Lodge attended the Evans School for Boys in Mesa, Arizona, the Middlesex School, Concord, Massachusetts, and Ecole de Droit, Paris, France. He graduated from Harvard University in 1925. He was a member of the Fox Club. He graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1929. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1932 and commenced practice in New York City. He was married July 6, 1929, to actress and ballet dancer, Francesca Braggiotti. He became affiliated with the motion-picture industry and the theater 1933-1942, appearing in movies such as Little Women, The Scarlet Empress, and The Little Colonel.
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