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 | | On November 4, 1952, John F. Kennedy, a three-term congressman, defeated incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., to become only the third Democrat in history elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts. |
 | | Lodge, in all likelihood, would have emerged as one of the most powerful political figures in the country, with a good chance of succeeding Ohio's Robert A. Taft as Senate Majority Leader. |
 | | The wife of Connecticut Governor John Davis Lodge, the senator's younger brother, Braggiotti had been born and raised in Italy, where she had achieved a small measure of fame as a dancer and movie actress. |
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