Joseph McCarthy

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who was a Republican U.S. Senator from Wisconsin from 1947 to his death. In 1950, McCarthy began to be the most visible public face of a period of intense anti-communist suspicion, which was inspired by the tensions of the Cold War.

He told Americans that many of communist and Soviet spies and sympathizers were in federal government and elsewhere. McCarthyism is a term that was coined in 1950 to refer to McCarthy's practices, and it was soon applied to similar anti-communist pursuits.

During World War II, he was a captain in the United States Marine Corps.

McCarthy died of hepatitis at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

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