Question: who was the united states senator from wisconsin who announced in february 1950

title: Joseph McCarthy
text: From the start of his notoriety , McCarthy served as a favorite subject for political cartoonists . He was traditionally depicted in a negative light , normally pertaining to McCarthyism and his accusations . Herblock 's cartoon that coined the term McCarthyism appeared less than two months after the senator 's now famous February 1950 speech in Wheeling , West Virginia . In 1953 , the popular daily comic strip Pogo introduced the character Simple J. Malarkey , a pugnacious and conniving wildcat with an unmistakable physical resemblance to McCarthy . After a worried Rhode Island newspaper editor protested to the syndicate that provided the strip , creator Walt Kelly began depicting the Malarkey character with a bag over his head , concealing his features . The explanation was that Malarkey was hiding from a Rhode Island Red hen , a clear reference to the controversy over the Malarkey character .