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Joseph Raymond McCarthy
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McCarthy, Joseph Raymond 

Born Nov. 14, 1908, near Appleton, Wis.; died May 2, 1957, in Bethesda, Md. US politician.

McCarthy was educated as a lawyer. After graduating in 1935 from Marquette University, he was a lawyer and a judge; from 1942 he served in the US Marines. From 1946 to 1957, McCarthy was a Republican senator from the state of Wisconsin. McCarthy became linked with the extremely reactionary trend in US political life in the early 1950’s, a trend that came to be called McCarthyism. Beginning in 1953 he was the chairman of the Senate Committee on Government Operations and of its Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations; he fiercely advocated the intensification of the cold war, and the adoption of antidemocratic and antilabor legislation. He engaged in warmongering and whipped up anticommunist hysteria. By their activities McCarthy and his followers discredited the ruling circles of the USA to such a degree that the Senate on Dec. 2, 1954, passed a resolution condemning his conduct.
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