In February 1950, McCarthy gave a Lincoln Day address in Wheeling, West Virginia. He claimed that over 200 communists held jobs at the State Department.

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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 ...

Trump, he realized, is essentially the latest incarnation of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator from the 1950s who leveraged national anxieties about communism to brutalize his political enemies.

More than seven decades later, the legacies of the Red Scare have resurfaced in the United States – this time targeting China ...

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 ...

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 ...

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy died yesterday at 6:02 p.m. of acute hepatitis. He was 47 years old. The two-term junior senator from Wisconsin, whose activities as chairman of the Senate Permanent ...

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy this week picked out John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, for special mention as one of the many authors of "pro-communist" books in the State Department's ...