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Biography

Name:	Joseph Raymond McCarthy
Birth Date:	November 14, 1908
Death Date:	May 2, 1957
Place of Birth:	Grand Chute, Wisconsin, United States
Place of Death:	Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Nationality:	American
Gender:	Male
Occupations:	senator

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Biography of Joseph Raymond McCarthy
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Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908-1957), U.S. senator, in a highly publicized pursuit of a Communist "conspiracy" became a national figure. The term "McCarthyism" became a synonym for reckless smear tactics intended to destroy the victim's political...

Quotations

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Joseph McCarthy Quotes
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Joseph McCarthy ( 14 November 1908 - 2 May 1957 ) was a Republican Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 to 1957. He is best known for making accusations of membership in the communist party or of communist sympathies against people working in...

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Encyclopedia and Summary Information

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Joseph McCarthy Information
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This article is about the U.S. senator from Wisconsin (1947-1957). For other people named Joseph McCarthy, see Joseph McCarthy (disambiguation). Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) served as a Republican U.S. Senator from...

News and Journals

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The Washington Post

The Good (If Fictional) Side of Joseph McCarthy
06/17/1999: 808 words, approx. 3 pages

THE REDHUNTER A Novel Based on the Life of Senator Joe McCarthy By William F. Buckley Jr. Little, Brown. 421 pp. $25 In 1991 retiring history professor Harry Bontecou bumps into Tracy Allshott, his college roommate from Columbia University in the early...

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The New American

McCarthy and his colleagues. (Worth Repeating).(Joseph McCarthy)
06/16/2003: 1,017 words, approx. 3 pages

Many Americans have been led to believe that Senator Joseph McCarthy was a loathsome bully who misused the power of his office to unleash a reign of terror against innocent individuals. But many of McCarthy's Senate colleagues -- like millions of his other...

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AP News

Deputy screening visitors spurs mistrial
2/27/2007: 267 words, approx. 1 pages

A judge abruptly halted a trial for three men accused in a courthouse shooting because the deputy who was wounded that day was screening the potential jurors.Attorneys were part was through the first day of jury selection Monday when the defense noticed Deputy Kimsey Gray...

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AP News

House condemns MoveOn.org's Petraeus ad
9/26/2007: 252 words, approx. 1 pages

The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to condemn the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org for a recent advertisement attacking the top U.S. general in Iraq.By a 341-79 vote, the House passed a resolution praising the patriotism Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq,...

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