He ran unsuccessfully for district attorney in 1936 and for Senate in 1944 before winning a Senate seat in 1946 by a two-thirds majority.
He ran unsuccessfully for district attorney in 1936 and for Senate in 1944 before winning a Senate seat in 1946 by a two-thirds majority. Not until 1950, though, did this man become widely known to the public, after he claimed in a speech to a West Virginian Republican Women's Club that he held a list of names of Communist sympathizers in the State Department. FTP identify this Wisconsin senator whose name has become synonymous with the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950's.
He ran unsuccessfully for district attorney in 1936 and for Senate in 1944 before winning a Senate seat in 1946 by a two-thirds majority.
Joseph {McCarthy}