Waupaca County, WI - Biography of Joseph Raymond MCCARTHY of Manawa and Waupaca 1909-

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Subject: Biography of Joseph Raymond MCCARTHY of Manawa and Waupaca 1909-
Submitter: Janice Marasch
EMAIL: jmmarasch@aol.com
Date Submitted: May 25, 1999
Surnames: MCCARTHY
Source: Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949; p. 1521; http://www.ancestry.com/, 


Biography:
McCARTHY, Joseph Raymond, a Senator from Wisconsin; born in Grand Chute, Outagamie County, Wis.,
November 14, 1909; attended the Underhill country school; worked on a farm and later started his own chicken farm;
at the age of nineteen moved to Manawa and enrolled in Little Wolf High School while working in a grocery store
and ushering at a theater in the evenings, completing a four-year course in one year; in 1930 entered Marquette
University at Milwaukee, Wis., to study engineering but later transferred to the law department and graduated in
1935; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Waupaca; in 1936 moved to Shawano, Wis.,
and continued the practice of his chosen profession; elected circuit judge of the tenth judicial circuit of Wisconsin in
1939 and while serving in this capacity enlisted, in 1942, as a private in the United States Marine Corps; was later
commissioned a lieutenant, serving thirty months on active duty with nineteen months in the South Pacific area;
unsuccessful candidate for United States Senator in 1944 while in military service; reelected circuit judge of
Wisconsin in 1945 while still in the Marine [p.1521] Corps; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in
1946 for the term commencing January 3, 1947, and ending January 3, 1953.