Joseph McCarthy ‑ Senator
Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin ...
Joseph R. McCarthy: A Featured Biography - Senate.gov
Joseph R. McCarthy: A Featured Biography ... Elected to the Senate in 1946, Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957) did not draw major national attention until 1950.
Joseph McCarthy | Biography, Senator, McCarthyism, Communism ...
Joseph McCarthy, U.S. senator who lent his name to McCarthyism. He dominated the U.S. political climate in the early 1950s through his ...
McCarthyism / The "Red Scare" | Eisenhower Presidential Library
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy was a little-known junior senator from Wisconsin until February 1950 when he claimed to possess a list of 205 card-carrying ...
"Communists in Government Service," McCarthy Says - U.S. Senate
"Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the ...
MCCARTHY, Joseph Raymond - Bioguide Search
Joseph Raymond, a Senator from Wisconsin; born in Grand Chute, Outagamie County, Wis., November 14, 1908; attended a one-room country school; worked on a farm.
McCarthyism and the Red Scare | Miller Center
The paranoia about the internal Communist threat—what we call the Red Scare—reached a fever pitch between 1950 and 1954, when Senator Joe McCarthy of ...
Joseph R. McCarthy (1908-1957) - The George Washington University
Forty million viewers watched the Army-McCarthy hearings and the national mood began to turn against the senator when, on June 9, 1954, the audience in the ...
Senator Joseph McCarthy Timeline - Marquette University
Senator Joseph McCarthy Timeline ; 1946,, Nov. 5, McCarthy elected to U.S. Senate. ; 1950,, Feb. 9, McCarthy delivers speech in Wheeling, West Virginia attacking ...
Joseph McCarthy - The New York Times
McCarthy was authentic working class. His eldest brother, Steve, was a factory worker; another a local auctioneer; the third a truck driver. It was only in law ...
Joseph R. McCarthy Career Timeline | Wisconsin Historical Society
As a member of the new Republican majority, McCarthy becomes chair of Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, previously an innocuous post. He ...
Senator McCarthy's Oversight Abuses • Levin Center
Focusing on Cold War fears of communism and subversion, Senator McCarthy became infamous for abusing his congressional oversight powers and riding roughshod ...
Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy (1954)
EnlargeDownload Link Citation: Senate Resolution 301, December 2, 1954; SEN 83A-B4, Records of the United States Senate; Record Group 46; ...
Joseph McCarthy - Encyclopedia of Milwaukee
Republican Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908-1957) grew up on a farm near Appleton, Wisconsin. He moved to Milwaukee in 1930 to attend Marquette University.
Joseph McCarthy and the Force of Political Falsehoods
Even then, he had a reputation as a scofflaw. He had exaggerated his war record. He first ran for Senate (and lost) while he was still in ...
Joseph McCarthy ‑ Senator, Cold War & Death | HISTORY
Senator McCarthy spent almost five years trying in vain to expose communists and other left-wing “loyalty risks” in the U.S. government. In the ...
McCarthyism | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica
McCarthyism, name given to the period of the 1950s when Senator Joseph McCarthy produced a series of investigations and hearings in an ...
Remembering McCarthy | Wisconsin Historical Society
This gallery contains over 150 images of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin. McCarthy served as a Republican senator from 1947 until his death in 1957.
Harry S. Truman responds to McCarthy, 1950
Harry S. Truman responds to McCarthy, 1950 | | In February 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy alleged in a speech in West Virginia that more than 200 staff ...
The Censure of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy - National Archives
In 1954 McCarthy's investigation of security threats in the U.S. Army was televised. McCarthy's bullying of witnesses turned public opinion against the Senator.
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Eugene McCarthy
Former United States SenatorEugene Joseph McCarthy was an American politician, writer, and academic from Minnesota. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the United States Senate from 1959 to 1971.
Robert F. Kennedy
Former United States Attorney GeneralRobert Francis Kennedy, also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 64th United States attorney general from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968, when he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination.