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Joseph McCarthy

1908 - 1957

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Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. He alleged that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Ultimately he was censured by the Senate in 1954 for refusing to cooperate with and abusing members of the committee established to investigate whether or not he should be censured. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph McCarthy is the 2,807th most popular politician (down from 1,810th in 2019), the 1,005th most popular biography from United States (down from 546th in 2019) and the 98th most popular American Politician.

Joseph McCarthy was a United States Senator from Wisconsin. He is most famous for claiming that there were Communists in the United States government.

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Among politicians, Joseph McCarthy ranks 2,807 out of 19,576. Before him are Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Louis the Blind, Abiy Ahmed, Anne Neville, Jürgen Stroop, and Prince Shōtoku. After him are Thomas Bach, Hyeonjong of Joseon, Eisaku Satō, Tiglath-Pileser III, Shalmaneser I, and Abdul Hamid.

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Among people born in 1908, Joseph McCarthy ranks 43. Before him are Manoel de Oliveira, Alfred Hershey, Willard Libby, David Lean, Victor Weisskopf, and Tameo Ide. After him are Werner von Haeften, Cesare Pavese, William Saroyan, Carole Lombard, Arthur Adamov, and Mercè Rodoreda. Among people deceased in 1957, Joseph McCarthy ranks 29. Before him are Alfred Döblin, Heinrich Hoffmann, José Leandro Andrade, Curzio Malaparte, Jože Plečnik, and Richard E. Byrd. After him are Alfonso de Portago, Maurice Garin, František Kupka, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and V. Gordon Childe.

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Among people born in United States, Joseph McCarthy ranks 1,005 out of 20,380. Before him are Douglas Fairbanks (1883), Greg Abbott (1957), William H. Macy (1950), Frances Farmer (1913), Hermann Joseph Muller (1890), and Frank Miller (1957). After him are Mel Ferrer (1917), Pat Morita (1932), Jean Harlow (1911), Gary Gygax (1938), Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887), and Joseph Barbera (1911).

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Among politicians born in United States, Joseph McCarthy ranks 98. Before him are Patrick Leahy (1940), John Lewis (1940), Michael Bloomberg (1942), Nancy Pelosi (1940), Crazy Horse (1840), and Greg Abbott (1957). After him are John Sherman (1823), Kamehameha I (1758), James Comey (1960), Lewis Strauss (1896), Frank B. Kellogg (1856), and William Perry (1927).

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