“The son of a bitch should be impeached.”
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Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican senator from Wisconsin from 1947 until his death 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 widespread communist subversion. He alleged that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated insti…
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Born 14 November 1908 · Died 2 May 1957 · Q189197
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2026· 4 entries
The Press Democrat: Edward Joseph McCarthy
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The Guardian: American witchhunt: how the McCarthy blacklist annihilated the Hollywood left
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Public attention spiked: 8,236 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.3× the usual 1,918, with 0 article edits.
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2019· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “A "Beware of Artists" poster was issued by Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.” Incorrect Attribution.
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1999· 1 entry
“Joseph McCarthy: Reexaming the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator”
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1957· 4 entries
Though doctors had not previously reported him to be seriously ill
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Died 1957-05-02.
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“Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down — they are truly down.”
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Career landmark: United States senator (1957–1957).
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1955· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1955–1957).
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1954· 9 entries
The Senate voted to "condemn" McCarthy on both counts by a vote of 67 to 22
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The Senate voted to censure McCarthy by a vote of 67–22, making him one of the few senators ever to be disciplined in this fashion
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The 30th day of the hearings, Welch challenged Roy Cohn to provide U
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And made a number of charges against the popular Murrow, including the accusation that he colluded with VOKS, the "Russian espionage and propaganda organization"
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Sauk-Prairie Star editor Leroy Gore of Sauk City, Wisconsin, urged the recall of McCarthy in a front-page editorial that ran alongside a sample petition that readers could fill out and mail to the newspaper
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For refusing to cooperate with and abusing members of the committee established to investigate whether or not he should be censured
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Including "Point of Order" by Stan Freberg and Daws Butler, "Senator McCarthy Blues" by Hal Block, and unionist folk singer Joe Glazer's "Joe McCarthy's Band", sung to the tune of "McNamara's Band"
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The radio comedy team Bob and Ray parodied McCarthy with the character "Commissioner Carstairs" in their soap opera spoof "Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife"
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Career landmark: censure.
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1953· 4 entries
Married Jean Fraser Kerr, a researcher in his office
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Career landmark: United States senator (1953–1955).
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Playwright Arthur Miller published The Crucible, suggesting the Salem witch trials were analogous to McCarthyism
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The popular daily comic strip Pogo introduced the character Simple J
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1952· 4 entries
Using rumors collected by Pearson as well as other sources, Nevada publisher Hank Greenspun wrote that McCarthy was a frequent patron at the White Horse Inn, a Milwaukee gay bar, and cited his involvement with young men
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McCarthy's FBI file also contains numerous allegations, including a 1952 letter from an Army lieutenant who said, "When I was in Washington some time ago, [McCarthy] picked me up at the bar in the Wardman [Hotel] and took me home, and while I was half-drunk he committed sodomy on me." J.
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Career landmark: re-election.
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With 54% of the popular vote, defeating former Wisconsin State Attorney General Thomas E
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1951· 4 entries
Ray Bradbury published "The Fireman", an allegory on suppression of ideas
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And 1952, and his abuse of General Zwicker in 1954
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As a book titled America's Retreat From Victory: The Story of George Catlett Marshall
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Career landmark: United States senator (1951–1953).
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1950· 6 entries
Calling for an end to the use of smear tactics without mentioning McCarthy or anyone else by name
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When he gave a Lincoln Dinner speech to the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia
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McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion
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Career landmark: discourse.
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In reference to McCarthy's practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist activities and came to refer to the post-war "Red Scare" period as a whole
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McCarthy assaulted journalist Drew Pearson in the cloakroom at the Sulgrave Club, reportedly kneeing him in the groin
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1949· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1949–1951).
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1947· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1947–1949).
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1946· 1 entry
As a Republican; he narrowly defeated incumbent Robert M
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1945· 1 entry
Career landmark: judge (1945–1957).
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1944· 1 entry
But was defeated by Alexander Wiley, the incumbent
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1942· 1 entry
Where he served as an intelligence briefing officer for a dive bomber squadron
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1941· 1 entry
For having lost evidence in a price fixing case
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1939· 2 entries
Career landmark: judge (1939–1942).
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McCarthy had better success when he ran for the nonpartisan elected post of 10th District circuit judge
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1935· 1 entry
Studied at Marquette University Law School (1935).
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1908· 2 entries
Born 1908-11-14.
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On a farm in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, the fifth of nine children
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