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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 from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957.
Jun 20, 2024 · Joseph McCarthy, U.S. senator who lent his name to McCarthyism. He dominated the U.S. political climate in the early 1950s through his sensational but unproven charges of communist subversion in high government circles.
Oct 29, 2009 · Learn about the life and legacy of Joseph McCarthy, the Republican senator who led the anti-communist witch hunts in the U.S. government during the Cold War. Find out how he rose to power, how he was censured by the Senate and how he died.
Apr 2, 2014 · Joseph McCarthy. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that communists had infiltrated the U.S. State Department. He became chair of the Senate's subcommittee on investigations....
Jun 24, 2024 · McCarthyism, name given to the period of the 1950s when Senator Joseph McCarthy produced a series of investigations and hearings in an effort to expose supposed communist infiltration of the U.S. government.
Learn how the Wisconsin senator's anticommunist crusade crumbled after his attacks on the Army and his censure by his colleagues. Find out how Edward R. Murrow, Joseph Nye Welch, and the Army exposed his lies and abuses of power.
Oct 18, 2021 · As presidential historian Jon Meacham told NBC News in May 2018, Sen. Joe McCarthy "was never president" or nearly as powerful a figure as Trump, but McCarthyism is "the clearest analogy we have."
