The Evening Star (April 22, 1946)
Lodge seeks to oppose Walsh for Senate seat
BOSTON (A.P.) – Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who resigned in the second year of his second term as senator to enter the Army in 1944, has announced his candidacy for that seat in this year’s election.
The 43-year-old grandson of a 30-year senator said last night that he was running for the public office because it is “the binding duty of all who have had special training in our kind of government to offer their services in peace.”
When the announcement one of the most sensational senatorial battles in Massachusetts’ political history was assured, for the former Army lieutenant colonel will be running against Sen. Walsh, Democrat, 73-year-old veteran chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee who will seek his fifth term.
If elected, Sen. Walsh will equal the record length of service as senator from Massachusetts of his opponent’s grandfather, Henry Cabot Lodge.
The only other candidate for the Republican nomination in the June 18 primary, Sybil H. Holmes, former Massachusetts state senator, said last night she would withdraw “as I said I would if Mr. Lodge announced his candidacy.”