Outagamie County, WI - Biography of Joseph Raymond McCarthy of Appleton, Grand Chute
1908-1957

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Subject: Biography of Joseph Raymond McCarthy of Appleton, Grand Chute 1908-1957
Submitter: County Coordinator
EMAIL: jmmarasch@aol.com
Date Submitted: Oct 19, 1999
Surnames: MCCARTHY
Source: http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccarthy.html#R9M0J5MTC;
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000315; DAB; Griffith, Robert. The
Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press,
1970; Oshinsky, David. A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joseph McCarthy. New York:
Free Press, 1983. , 19 October 1999


Biography:
http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccarthy.html#R9M0J5MTC

McCarthy, Joseph Raymond (1908-1957) of Appleton, Wis. Born in Grand Chute, Wis.,
November 14, 1908. State court judge, 1939; U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, 1947-1957. Died of
a liver ailment at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md., May 2, 1957. Interment at St. Mary's
Cemetery, Appleton, Wis.

See also his congressional biography
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000315

McCARTHY, Joseph Raymond, 1908-1957 

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Years of Service: 1947-1957 
Party: Republican 


McCARTHY, Joseph Raymond, 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; emerged from obscurity in the Senate in 1950 with exaggerated
claims of Communists in the State Department, which rapidly grew into charges of Communist
infiltration into all facets of American life; the term 'McCarthyism' became synonymous with
the charge of Communists in government; 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; for his unscrupulous tactics, McCarthy was censured by the Senate
on December 2, 1954, for behavior that was 'contemptuous, contumacious, and denunciatory';
funeral services were held in the Chamber of the United States Senate; interment in St. Mary's
Cemetery, Appleton, Wis.