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.

Dec 19, 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 · 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.

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.

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.

Oct 23, 2019 · Senator Joseph McCarthy led a reckless crusade against suspected communists in America which created a national panic in the early 1950s.

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.

McCarthy was a master of drumming up emotions and making powerful implications. From the winter of 1950 to the summer of 1954, he made outrageous charges and prompted numerous unnecessary investigations, always accompanied by tremendous publicity and minimal evidence.

A grandson of an Irish immigrant, McCarthy became probably one of the most notorious Senators of his time. His base was Wisconsin where he received his law degree, became a Judge, and after serving in World War II, became one if its Senators.