Sen. Joseph McCarthy The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wisconsin. The end of World War II saw the United States defeating two enemies -- Germany and Japan -- and gaining a new one, the Soviet Union.

Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the ...

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy died yesterday at 6:02 p.m. of acute hepatitis. He was 47 years old. The two-term junior senator from Wisconsin, whose activities as chairman of the Senate Permanent ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy (right) and Senator Karl Mundt (left) being interviewed by the media after initial discussions in the 36 days of the Army-McCarthy hearings in the Senate McCarthy’s most ...