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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Joseph McCarthy
		Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin between 1947 and 1957.
		Born and raised on a Wisconsin farm, McCarthy earned a law degree at Marquette University in 1935 and was elected as a circuit judge in 1939, the youngest in state history.
		McCarthy was born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, on November 14, 1908, and educated at Marquette University.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Joseph-McCarthy (1588 words)

	Senator Joseph McCarthy
		Senator Joseph McCarthy was the leading American anticommunist figure in the late 1940s and early 50s.
		McCarthy then demanded that Peress be court-martialed, but the process of the discharge had already started.
		On December 2, 1954, the Senate voted to censure McCarthy by a vote of 67 to 22.
	library.thinkquest.org /10826/mccarthy.htm (501 words)

	Telegram from Senator Joseph McCarthy to President Harry S. Truman
		McCarthy was nearing the end of his first term as senator and needed a big issue to energize his run for a second term.
		Senator McCarthy was placed on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Committee on Governmental Operations and became its chairman in 1953.
		McCarthy manipulated the workings of the new committee to continue sweeping accusations of communist activity in the executive branch.
	www.archives.gov /education/lessons/mccarthy-telegram/index.html?template=print (785 words)

	Joseph McCarthy - MSN Encarta
		McCarthy’s charges were often not well substantiated, and the United States Senate voted to censure him for the tactics he used.
		McCarthy was born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, on November 14, 1908, and educated at Marquette University.
		During the ensuing Senate investigations, which were widely publicized in the press and given nationwide radio and television coverage, McCarthy was cleared of the charges against him but was censured by the Senate for the methods he had used in his investigations and for his abuse of certain senators and Senate committees.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555843/McCarthy_Joseph_Raymond_(politician).html (352 words)

	Joseph McCarthy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph McCarthy became the most visible public face of this era of intense anti-Communism, and as a result, the term McCarthyism was coined to describe both the historical period (roughly 1950-1956) and the practices that came to be identified with McCarthy.
		McCarthy was born on a farm in the town of Grand Chute, Wisconsin.
		McCarthy appointed Roy Cohn as chief counsel and Robert Kennedy as an assistant counsel to the subcommittee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_McCarthy (6264 words)

	McCarthyism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		McCarthyism is the term describing a period of intense anti-Communist suspicion in the United States that lasted roughly from the late 1940s to the mid to late 1950s.
		The period of McCarthyism is also referred to as the Second Red Scare, and coincided with increased fears of Communist influence on American institutions, espionage by Soviet agents such as the Rosenbergs, heightened tension from Soviet hegemony over Eastern Europe, the success of the Chinese Communist revolution (1949) and the Korean War (1950-1953).
		Joseph McCarthy himself headed the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in 1953 and 1954, and during that time used it for a number of his Communist-hunting investigations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/McCarthyism (4427 words)

	Joseph McCarthy
		Joseph McCarthy was a relatively unknown senator from Wisconsin nearing the end of his first term in 1950.
		McCarthy was interrogating a witness for the Army when finally, the Army's chief attorney, Joseph Welch, challenged the senator.
		McCarthy was born in 1908 in Outagamie County, Wis. He only had an eighth grade education when took a job as manager of a grocery store in Manawa, Wis. Even then, McCarthy was fond of attention and he was popular person at the store.
	www.heroism.org /class/1950/heroes/mccarthy.htm (659 words)

	The New American - The Real McCarthy Record - September 2, 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		McCarthy told his Wheeling audience that while he did not have the names of the 205 mentioned in the Byrnes letter, he did have the names of 57 who were either members of or loyal to the Communist Party.
		McCarthy was not being inconsistent in his use of the numbers; the 57 and 81 were part of the 205 mentioned in the Byrnes letter.
		McCarthy also exposed scores of others who may not have been identified as communists, but who certainly were causing harm to national security from their posts in the State Department, the Pentagon, the Army, key defense plants, and the Government Printing Office.
	www.thenewamerican.com /tna/1996/vo12no18/vo12no18_mccarthy.htm (9116 words)

	Senator Joe McCarthy, anti-Communist
		McCarthy went so far as to say that he would stake his entire reputation on the question of whether Lattimore was a Communist agent.
		During McCarthy's entire career "1947 to 1958 no American citizen was interrogated without benefit of legal counsel, none was arrested or detained without due judicial process, and no one went to jail without trial." (A. Herman, p 3) The Communist Party was not outlawed and being a member was not a crime.
		McCarthy attacked liberalism itself, exposing its fraud by proving liberal's willingness to side with Communist infiltration and treason, to glamorize the brutality of Communist governments.
	members.tripod.com /~wwx2/mccarthy.html (1560 words)

	Eugene Joseph McCarthy - Encyclopedia.com
		Defeated for the nomination by Hubert H. Humphrey, McCarthy retired from the Senate and resumed (1973) teaching, but subsequently mounted several (1972, 1976, 1988, 1992) futile campaigns for the presidency.
		beckoned, and in 1948 McCarthy was elected to the House...
		Maureen McCarthy, 63; poet was an innkeeper on the Maine coast
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-McCarthyE.html (754 words)

	Joseph McCarthy - Conservapedia
		McCarthy's allegations were rejected by Truman who was unaware of Venona project decrypts which corroborated Elizabeth Bentley's debriefing after her defection from the Communists.
		McCarthy is said to have made the claim, "I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party." The famous "List", as it has come to be known, has always engendered much controversy.
		McCarthy was buried in St. Mary's Parish Cemetery in Appleton and was survived by his wife, Jean, and their adopted daughter, Tierney.
	www.conservapedia.com /Joseph_McCarthy (8664 words)

	Joseph McCarthy
		Joseph McCarthy was born on a farm in Appleton, Wisconsin, on 14th November, 1908.
		McCarthy, as chairman of the Government Committee on Operations of the Senate, was in an ideal position to exploit this situation.
		McCarthy considered a libel suit against Greenspun but decided against it when he was told by his lawyers that if the case went ahead he would have to take the witness stand and answer questions about his sexuality.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAmccarthy.htm (4788 words)

	Joseph McCarthy
		Senator Joe McCarthy is infamous for having exploited the specter of Communist infiltration in the government for his own aggrandizement.
		During the convention, McCarthy spent the night with William McMahon, formerly an official of the Milwaukee County Young Republicans, in a Eausua hotel room, at which time, McCarthy and McMahon engaged in illicit acts with each other.
		One effect McCarthy has had on the present day is in his influence on conservative freak Ann Coulter.
	www.nndb.com /people/490/000051337 (585 words)

	Joseph McCarthy - dKosopedia
		McCarthy was born on a farm in the town of Grand Chute, Wisconsin.
		McCarthy worked his way through a law degree at Marquette University in Milwaukee from 1930 to 1935, and was admitted to the Bar association in 1935.
		The effect of McCarthy's speech, however, in a nation already worried by the aggressiveness of the Soviet Union in Europe and alarmed by the trial of Alger Hiss, which was in progress as McCarthy made his speech, was electric.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Joseph_McCarthy (2815 words)

	Rise & Fall \| Joseph McCarthy
		McCarthy, is contrary to senatorial traditions and is hereby condemned.
		McCarthy, in writing to the chairman of the Select Committee to Study Censure Charges (Mr.
		McCarthy would never fully recover from this blow from his colleagues. McCarthy died from acute hepatitis three years later, while still serving in office. McCarthy was buried in Appleton, Wisconsin.
	josephmccarthy.homestead.com /RiseandFall.html (66 words)

	Senator Joseph R. McCarthy
		Joe McCarthy was elected as a circuit judge in Wisconsin in 1939 and took over a district court that had a backlog of more than 200 cases.
		The enemies of McCarthy have seized on his good-natured remark about shooting down coconut trees from his tail-gunner's spot (an ABC television movie about McCarthy in the late 1970s was entitled Tail Gunner Joe) to belittle his military accomplishments, but the official record gives the true picture.
		Thus, Joe McCarthy was receptive in the fall of 1949 when three men brought to his office a 100-page FBI report alleging extensive communist penetration of the State Department.
	members.tripod.com /~BioLeft/mccarthy.htm (1314 words)

	McCarthy, Joseph Raymond. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		When the Republicans assumed control of Congress in 1953, McCarthy, who had been reelected in 1952, became chairman of the Senate permanent investigations subcommittee (Government Operations Committee), a post in which he wielded great power; he used his position to exploit the public’s fear of Communism.
		However, in December the Senate, acting on a motion of censure against him, voted to “condemn” McCarthy for contempt of a Senate elections subcommittee that had investigated his conduct and financial affairs in 1952, for abuse of certain senators, and for insults to the Senate itself during the censure proceedings.
		McCarthy’s indiscriminate attacks gave rise to the term “McCarthyism,” which denotes similar assaults characterized by sensationalist tactics and unsubstantiated accusations.
	www.bartleby.com /65/mc/McCarthyJR.html (445 words)

	Joseph McCarthy
		McCarthyism was part of "a popular revolt against the upper classes," as Harvard sociologist Talcott Parsons put it, and Rovere for one had no doubt about which side he himself was on.
		McCarthy had risen from county circuit judge to the Senate at age thirty-eight; LBJ became minority leader at age forty-six.
		In McCarthy's case, it was Wisconsin political boss Tom Coleman and various wealthy Milwaukee businessmen; in Johnson's case, it was the millionaire Brown Brothers of Texas.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/h/herman-mccarthy.html (6665 words)

	Forty questions and answers about Senator Joseph McCarthy [Free Republic]
		McCarthy told his Wheeling audience that while he did not have the names of the 205 mentioned in the Byrnes letter, he did have the names of 57 who were either members of or loyal to the Communist Party.
		McCarthy was not being inconsistent in his use of the numbers; the 57 and 81 were part of the 205 mentioned in the Byrnes letter.
		McCarthy also exposed scores of others who may not have been identified as Communists, but who certainly were causing harm to national security from their posts in the State Department, the Pentagon, the Army, key defense plants, and the Government Printing Office.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a7f91723a2b.htm (11537 words)

	CENSURE OF SENATOR JOSEPH MCCARTHY (1954)
		Then in February 1950, an undistinguished, first-term Republican senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, burst into national prominence when, in a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, he held up a piece of paper that he claimed was a list of 205 known communists currently working in the State Department.
		McCarthy never produced documentation for a single one of his charges, but for the next four years he exploited an issue that he realized had touched a nerve in the American public.
		McCarthy, is contrary to senatorial traditions and is hereby condemned.
	usinfo.state.gov /usa/infousa/facts/democrac/60.htm (400 words)

	Joseph McCarthy
		Joseph Raymond McCarthy was born to devout Catholic parents on November 14, 1908, in Grand Chute, Wisconsin.
		On McCarthy’s first day in office, he called a press conference to air his proposal for the end of a coal miner’s strike led by labor leader John L. Lewis.
		McCarthy died on May 2, 1957, in a Bethesda, Maryland^, naval hospital at age 49, of acute hepatitis brought on by alcoholism.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1774.html (1466 words)

	The Fight For America: Senator Joseph McCarthy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I do continue to believe that McCarthy was a self-serving, witch-hunting demagogue who did a great disservice to the reputation of his country and his government, wielding patriotism as a smokescreen to justify anti-democratic repression of freedom of organization and speech.
		Joseph Raymond McCarthy was born in 1908 on a family farm in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
		McCarthy then set up a law practice in Waupaca, a nearby town, and it is reported that he took only four cases in nine months.
	jessefriedman.com /writings/joemccarthy.shtml (2894 words)

	The Anti-Communist Crusade and the Rise of McCarthyism
		McCarthyism is the use of the charge of communism to discredit political ideas, cultural values, and individual's lives and reputations.
		McCarthy warned that there were communist traitors in American government and society that were threatening to destroy the United States.
		McCarthy called prominent American writers, actors, directors, government officials, and influential American cultural and social leaders to testify before his committee about their knowledge and involvement in this communist conspiracy.
	www.colorado.edu /AmStudies/lewis/2010/mccarthy.htm (2016 words)

	Joseph McCarthy: Biography
		While still on active duty in 1944, McCarthy challenged incumbent Alexander Wiley for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate, but was soundly defeated. In April, 1945, having resigned his military commission, McCarthy was re-elected without opposition to the circuit court. He immediately began planning for the 1946 Senate campaign.
		Throughout the early 1950s, McCarthy continued to make accusations of communist infiltration of the U. government, though he failed to provide evidence.
		Joseph Raymond McCarthy was buried on a bluff overlooking the Fox River in Appleton’s St. Mary’s cemetery.
	www.apl.org /history/mccarthy/biography.html (259 words)

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