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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Joseph R. McCarthy |
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Appleton, Wisconsin , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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November 14, 1908
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| Died | May 02, 1957
(48 years)
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| Contributor | Mr. Techno |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Nov 18, 2018 04:21pm |
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German - Irish - Married - Alcoholic - Marine Corps - Censured - Disputed -
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| Info | a Senator from Wisconsin; born in Grand Chute, Outagamie County, Wis., November 14, 1908; attended a one-room country school; worked on a farm; at the age of nineteen moved to Manawa, Wis., and enrolled in a high school; while working in a grocery store and ushering at a theater in the evenings, completed a four-year course in one year; graduated from Marquette University at Milwaukee, Wis., with a law degree in 1935; was admitted to the bar the same year; commenced practice in Waupaca, and in 1936 moved to Shawano, Wis., and continued to practice law; elected circuit judge of the tenth judicial circuit of Wisconsin in 1939; while serving in this capacity enlisted in 1942 in the United States Marine Corps; resigned as a lieutenant in 1945; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Senator in 1944 while in military service; reelected circuit judge of Wisconsin in 1945 while still in the Marine Corps; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1946; reelected in 1952 and served from January 3, 1947, until his death in the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md., May 2, 1957; co-chairman, Joint Committee on the Library (Eighty-third Congress), chairman, Committee on Government Operations (Eighty-third Congress), Special Committee on Unemployment Problems (Eighty-sixth Congress); used his position as chairman of the Committee on Government Operations and its Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to launch investigations designed to document charges of Communists in government; censured by the Senate on December 2, 1954, for behavior that was �contrary to senatorial traditions�; funeral services were held in the Chamber of the United States Senate; interment in St. Mary�s Cemetery, Appleton, Wis.
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