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	Pat McCarran
		McCarran was also Nevada Chief Justice (1917-18), chairman of the Nevada State Board of Parole Commissioners (1913-18) and chairman of the Nevada State Board of Bar Examiners (1919-32).
		A member of the Democratic Party, McCarran, after two unsuccessful bids in 1916 and 1926, was elected the U. Senate in 1932.
		In June, 1952, McCarran joined Francis Walter in instigating the passing of the McCarran-Walter Act that imposed more rigid restrictions on entry quotas to the United States.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAmccarran.htm (282 words)

	Pat McCarran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		McCarran was also Nevada Chief Justice (1917–18), chairman of the Nevada State Board of Parole Commissioners (1913–18) and chairman of the Nevada State Board of Bar Examiners (1919–32).
		A member of the Democratic Party, McCarran, after two unsuccessful bids in 1916 and 1926, was elected the U.S. Senate in 1932.
		Pat McCarran remained in the Senate until his death in Hawthorne, Nevada in 1954.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pat_McCarran (334 words)

	Anticommunism run amok : the life of Senator Pat McCarran
		McCarran was a Democrat, elected to the Senate from Nevada in 1932.
		McCarran was, however, a cagey and hard-working man, and he became known as Nevada’s most powerful orator through his work as a defense lawyer.
		McCarran combined grand rhetoric with a shrewd sensitivity to the interests of a powerful layer within the American bourgeoisie that considered any concession to the working class to be an unacceptable constraint on its profit-making prerogatives.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/dec2004/mcca-d18.shtml (3474 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Fear and Loathing
		McCarran represented the least populated state in the nation.
		Laws that McCarran wrote and pushed through Congress made it easy to fire federal employees without telling them why or giving them a way to appeal and set up concentration camps in this country for imprisoning left-wing dissidents during "emergencies." With the end of World War II, there were seven million Europeans homeless and adrift.
		McCarran considered all immigrants to be potential spies, and he hated Jews.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A63754-2004Sep30?language=printer (858 words)

	NSLA - Historical Myth a Month - Getting the Facts Down Pat
		Born on August 8, 1876 in Reno, Pat McCarran became the first native-born Nevadan to be elected U.S. Senator.
		According to UNR history professor Jerome Edwards, in his biography Pat McCarran: Political Boss of Nevada (1982), "when the time came for the class of 1901 to graduate, he took his mother to see the twenty-six other members of the class receive their diplomas: she sat in the auditorium with him and cried."
		McCarran, admitted to the Nevada Bar in 1905, was not associated with the case.
	dmla.clan.lib.nv.us /docs/nsla/archives/myth/myth64.htm (1030 words)

	HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE: The National Conservative Weekly Since 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Ybarra argues that McCarran, as a member of the majority party in the Senate and chairman of a committee that oversaw ten of every 18 Senate bills, was far more "threatening" to civil liberties than the junior Republican lawmaker from Wisconsin.
		McCarran broke with FDR in the first month of his presidency over New Deal legislation the senator felt was encroaching on state's rights.
		McCarran feuded as fervently with Harry Truman, the two having developed a mutual disgust since their days as freshman senators.
	www.humaneventsonline.com /article.php?print=yes&id=5860 (956 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Columnist Jon Ralston: Don't glorify wrongs of the past
		It is a crime that the gleaming Southern Nevada airport should be named for Pat McCarran, that the portal through which millions of visitors pour into Las Vegas every year should bear the name of the senator who had a hateful and irrational obsession with outsiders.
		McCarran overcame a hardscrabble beginning to preside over the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he acted as a suzerain, demanding loyalty from all who came before him and using his power in amazingly destructive ways.
		McCarran entered into an unholy alliance with FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, unearthing dirt on people he considered enemies of the state, driving many dedicated foreign service officers out of government, out of the country or even to suicide.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2005/feb/25/518354798.html (902 words)

	The First 100 Persons Who Shaped Southern Nevada
		Pat McCarran as he looked in the 1950s; he died in 1954 at age of 78.
		McCarran ran on a shoestring, but the Democratic Party allowed him to coast into the race without a primary opponent, because nobody else would risk getting slaughtered by Oddie in the general.
		McCarran got Bunker to run against Carville, and Bunker beat him in the Democratic primary, then lost to a Republican dark horse, George "Molly" Malone, in the general.
	www.1st100.com /part2/mccarran.html (2621 words)

	Clearance sale on Washington Gone Crazy : Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		McCarran was one of the most shrewd and powerful — and vindictive — lawmakers ever to sit in Congress.
		McCarran was consumed with looking for Communists in Washington and his obsession almost consumed the country.
		The son of illiterate Irish immigrants, McCarran was born in 1876 in Nevada, where he grew up to be a sheepherder who taught himself the law around the campfire, becoming a legendary defense attorney and judge.
	www.booksquirrel.com /Product/The%20Jungle:%20The%20Uncensored%20Original%20Edition/1586420658/Washington_Gone_Crazy_:_Senator_Pat_McCarran_and_the_Great_American_Communist_Hunt.html (1379 words)

	Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt \| Anti-Communism --- Part II
		Ybarra's book gives an exhaustive recounting of McCarran's anti-communist crusade of the early 50's, in addition to a detailed and sympathetic portrait of his impoverished early life.
		Weaving McCarran's early life into the history of Nevada, Ybarra ties them into the social history of the Great Depression and the concomitant social upheaval here and in Europe.
		McCarran didn't create these fears, but he was the politician most skilled at playing on them.
	www.ralphmag.org /DO/pat-mccarran2.html (1105 words)

	From out of Nevada, a whirlwind of paranoia
		McCarran began his political career in Tonopah, Nev., where he was a consummate outsider.
		McCarran wrote an important page of American history, and his unfortunate legacy of xenophobia and paranoia is with us still.
		McCarran had a lifelong habit of questioning the patriotism of opponents who stressed the requirements of liberty over the dictates of security.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2004/10/03/RVGTH8TUBC1.DTL (830 words)

	Empire Poker - The High Stakes Game Game of Cold War Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Internal Security Act of 1950, somtimes called the McCarran Act or the anticommunist law, is one of the most controversial and least understood laws in the history of the republic.
		The Internal Security Act, popularly named for Nevada's Senator Pat McCarran, an aging hack who, in fact, commandeered the legislation from an earlier version by congressmen Karl Mundt and (of all people) Richard Nixon argued for the fingerprinting and registration of all "subversives" at large in the United States.
		But the McCarran Act was only the tip of the inquisitorial iceberg.
	www.empirepoker.bz /three.htm (325 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Pat McCarran -- the good and bad
		A native Nevadan born of illiterate Irish immigrants, McCarran tended to the family's sheep as a boy.
		During McCarran's 22 years in the Senate, Nevada's population grew from 90,000 to 160,000, and McCarran became one of the most influential lawmakers in America.
		McCarran's good deeds on behalf of Nevada included spearheading efforts that brought the Basic Magnesium plant to Henderson and turning the World War II Army gunnery school into Nellis Air Force Base.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2004/sep/28/517581656.html (927 words)

	Opinion of Pat McCarran
		McCarran only began his formal education when he was ten years old.
		McCarran continued his law studies while tending sheep.
		Arguing forcefully for the need for the eight-hour workday and unions, one of McCarran's strongest arguments was in attacking the tycoon George Wingfield, a Republican who had established a powerful political foundation.
	uselectionatlas.org /FORUM/index.php?topic=51110.0 (1158 words)

	Las Vegas Mercury: Backstory: Augustine, With a Scarlet A
		• McCarran was the defense attorney in the trial of George Cole and Ed Malley.
		McCarran's defense of Cole and Malley was that they were part of the political machine run by George Wingfield during the first third of the 20th century.
		McCarran fought Wingfield the whole time and relished the chance to embarrass him--to get even with the boss who kept him out of high office.
	www.lasvegasmercury.com /2004/MERC-Dec-09-Thu-2004/25416215.html (812 words)

	Las Vegas Mercury: Backstory: McCarran's long Shadow
		He also captures McCarran's ambition--not only to serve in the Senate and to accumulate power once he was in it, but to serve Nevada and to dominate it.
		McCarran once threatened the liquor license of a bar owner who hired one of his political opponents as a bartender, for heaven's sake.
		Yet McCarran would do almost anything for those who mattered to him, from his real children with his wife to his spiritual children whom he helped with patronage jobs--and the state he loved.
	www.lasvegasmercury.com /2004/MERC-Sep-30-Thu-2004/24856560.html (844 words)

	50 years have dulled McCarran’s impact (printable version)
		Born in Reno to Irish immigrant parents on Aug. 8, 1876, McCarran was raised on a ranch 14 miles east of town on the Truckee River.
		In 1924, McCarran ran for the U.S. Senate and was defeated.
		McCarran was also a close ally of U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, the notorious communist hunter of the 1950s.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=81524 (983 words)

	California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Ethan Rarick has written a great biography of a man who was to be one of the most well known of California Governors.Edmund G. "Pat" Brown came on the political scene as DA of San Francisco County.
		"Pat" Brown picked the right time to run for governor when US Senator William F. Knowland figured to use the California governorship as a stepping stone to run for President.
		"Pat" Brown, in 1966 faced in a run for a 3rd term, a washed up actor from Warner Brothers, in the 1950's the host of General Electric Theatre and now the host of television's Death Valley Days.
	www.jemsfurniture.com /BookStore/isbn0520236270.html (763 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: No movement afoot to replace McCarran statue
		McCarran, who served on the Nevada Supreme Court and in the U.S. Senate from 1933 until his death in 1954, was an influential advocate for Nevada as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
		McCarran was clearly a powerful money appropriator for Nevada, but also a bigot and anti-communist leader even before Joseph McCarthy claimed the spotlight, Rocha said.
		McCarran is viewed as an anti-Semite who blamed the communist threat on Jews, Rocha said.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2005/mar/25/518506467.html (731 words)

	Amazon.com: Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt: Books: Michael Ybarra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		McCarran considered all immigrants to be potential spies, and he hated Jews.
		Democratic Senator McCarran (1876-1954) was the worker ant of anti-Communist legislation in contrast to his better known counterpart Republican Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin.
		Another McCarran quality was the sense of permanent outsidership, the conviction that he was one of life's insulted and injured.
	www.amazon.com /Washington-Gone-Crazy-McCarran-Communist/dp/1586420658 (2276 words)

	Axis History Forum :: View topic - Who Actually Started The McCarthy Era?
		Senator Pat McCarran, the man who started the communist hunt and set in place the strengths and weaknesses of the anti communist movement long before Joe McCarthy ever gave a speech-
		When you begin to ask yourself how he could have been forgotten- the guy who started it all, when you go back to original sources as the hero in 1984 does- you will discover the truth.
		Ybarra tells us he grumbled, "McCarran was a son of a bitch alive and he's a son of a bitch dead."
	forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=64065 (1388 words)

	Writings by Mike Marqusee on politics, culture and sport - anti-war - cricket - Bob Dylan - Muhammad Ali
		The wave of domestic repression of the late 1940s and early ’50s that bears his name-also referred to as the Red Scare, the fllist, the witch hunt, the cold war purge-was, of course, the work of an array of social forces, not a single individual.
		Pat McCarran was one of the great monsters of American public life.
		McCarran died and McCarthy was censured by his senatorial colleagues.
	www.mikemarqusee.com /index.php?p=114 (2601 words)

	Eva Adams Collection 82-11
		She was on the faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno in 1940, when Nevada Senator Pat McCarran invited her to join his staff in Washington, D.C. She subsequently became his Administrative Assistant and remained in that position until Senator McCarran's death in 1954.
		She became a member of the Nevada and District of Columbia bars and was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court in 1954.
		Included in the first group are papers generated from the Senatorial offices of Pat McCarran, 1936-1954; Ernest Brown, 1954; and Alan Bible, 1954-1960.
	www.library.unr.edu /specoll/mss/82-11.html (2167 words)

	AsianWeek.com: National News: Washington Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		And while many of the countries of post-war Europe developed democracies based on a socialist economic model, socialism and communism were crushed in this country by a fear of subversion that was tied by the captains of industry to a nativistic (fear of immigrants) fervor.
		By 1950, Senator Pat McCarran, D-Nevada, was head of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, which went so far as to investigate the administrations of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman to determine the effects of alleged communist influence.
		President Harry Truman saw the folly of McCarran’s 1950 Act when he noted that requiring members of banned organizations to identify themselves was like “requiring thieves to register with the sheriff...
	www.asianweek.com /2001_06_08/news11_washj_mcarranwalter.html (1004 words)

	McCarran International Airport biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		McCarran International Airport is located in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is one of the busiest airports in the world.
		It is a hub to America West Airlines and has the IATA Airport Code LAS.
		It is named for longtime Nevada politician Pat McCarran.
	mccarran-international-airport.biography.ms (66 words)

	Patrick Anthony (Pat) McCARRAN — Infoplease.com
		“Pat McCarran and the Amended DP Act.” In America and the Survivors of the Holocaust, pp.
		“Senator Patrick A. McCarran and the Politics of Containment.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia, 1979.
		“The Rhetoric of Senator Patrick Anthony McCarran.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oregon, 1973.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/us/congress/mccarran-patrick-anthony-(pat).html (295 words)

	Denton book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Then he came under the patronage of Pat McCarran, a powerful U.S. Senator, and his life forever changed.
		Pat McCarran died in 1954, but the Boys continued for decades to be important players in Nevada politics and government.
		Ironically, given McCarran’s often extreme conservative tendencies, several of the Boys proved to be somewhat liberal, Denton chief among them.
	www.unr.edu /oralhistory/denton.htm (280 words)

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