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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.
Joseph McCarthy (born November 14, 1908, near Appleton, Wisconsin, U.S.—died May 2, 1957, Bethesda, Maryland) was an American politician who served in the U.S. Senate (1947–57), representing Wisconsin, and who lent his name to the term McCarthyism.
Oct 29, 2009 · Joseph R. McCarthy, a U.S. senator from Wisconsin, is best known for his high‑profile attempts to expose communists in the U.S. government during the 1950s.
Apr 2, 2014 · Read about when Senator Joseph McCarthy publicly charged that 205 communists had infiltrated the U.S. State Department, on Biography.com.
Sep 10, 2024 · McCarthyism, name given to the period of time in American history that saw U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin produce a series of investigations and hearings during the 1950s in an effort to expose supposed communist infiltration of various areas of the U.S. government.
Jul 27, 2020 · Joseph McCarthy and the Force of Political Falsehoods. McCarthy never sent a single “subversive” to jail, but, decades later, the spirit of his conspiracy-mongering endures. By Louis Menand....
Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician. He was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period of intense anti-communist suspicion inspired by the tensions of the Cold War.
American politician. J oseph McCarthy rose to fame in 1950 when he shocked the nation with his claims that communists had infiltrated every segment of American society, including the government. His timing for making these accusations was impeccable, with the cold war heating up in post- World War II Europe and in the battlegrounds of Korea.
Elected to the Senate in 1946, Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957) did not draw major national attention until 1950. On February 9th of that year, he delivered a Lincoln Day address in Wheeling, West Virginia, blaming failures in American foreign policy on Communist infiltration of the U.S. government.
May 24, 2024 · McCarthy chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who led a Cold War crusade against Communists.
