Wis., charged the U.S. State Department was infested with communists, touching off the infamous "McCarthy era." ...

Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture ...

Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who had purportedly come here to speak in behalf of Sen. George W. Malone, now seeking re-election. Instead of speaking for Malone the Wisconsin senator leveled his ...

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 ...

Republican senator Joseph McCarthy was one such politician. McCarthy grabbed headlines in 1950 with his claim that he held a list of 205 State Department employees who were "known Communists." ...

The best of broadway gathered at the Winter Garden Theater, where George Clooney, Grant Heslov and director David Cromer, ...

A native of Watkins, Minnesota, Eugene Joseph McCarthy graduated from St ... Democratic presidential nomination in 1972, losing to Senator George McGovern. He made a better effort in 1976 ...