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e. 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. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of ...
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Oct 29, 2009 · Home. Topics. Cold War. Joseph McCarthy. By: History.com Editors. Updated: February 22, 2024 | Original: October 29, 2009. copy page link. Print Page. Getty Images. During the late 1940s and...
Nov 9, 2011 · By: Mark Larson. Keystone/Getty Images. American politician and inquisitor Joseph McCarthy became famous for his 1950s investigations into supposed communist subversion. Hank Walker/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images. McCarthy won a seat in the United States Senate in 1946, after the end of World War II.
Apr 2, 2014 · Read about when Senator Joseph McCarthy publicly charged that 205 communists had infiltrated the U.S. State Department, on Biography.com.
Apr 30, 2024 · 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.
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.
