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

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

The MTA accused the Special Commission on Combatting Antisemitism of "political grandstanding" after a hearing in the State ...

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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy (right) and Senator Karl Mundt (left) being interviewed by the media after initial discussions in the 36 days of the Army-McCarthy hearings in the Senate McCarthy’s most ...

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 ...

Certainly anyone who lived through one of the shabbiest times in recent American history, the insensate hunt for Communists with the late Senator Joseph McCarthy as the leader of the pack ...