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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—NevadaMcCARRAN, Patrick Anthony (Pat)
(1876—1954)
Senate Years of Service:
1933-1954
Party:
Democrat
McCARRAN, Patrick Anthony (Pat), a Senator from Nevada; born in Reno, Nev., August 8, 1876; attended the public schools and the University of Nevada at Reno; engaged in farming and in stock raising; member, State legislature 1903; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1905 and practiced in Tonopah and Goldfield, Nev.; district attorney of Nye County, Nev., 1907-1909; resumed the practice of law in Reno, Nev., in 1909; associate justice of the supreme court of Nevada 1913-1917 and chief justice 1917-1918; member of Nevada Board of Pardons 1913-1919; member of Nevada State Board of Parole Commissioners 1913-1918; chairman of the Nevada State Board of Bar Examiners 1919-1932; after two unsuccessful bids in 1916 and 1926, was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1932; reelected in 1938, 1944, and 1950 and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in Hawthorne, Nev., September 28, 1954; chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia (Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses), Committee on the Judiciary (Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses), co-chairman, Joint Committee on Foreign Economic Cooperation (Eighty-first Congress); interment in Mountain View Cemetery, Reno, Nev.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; McCarran, Sister Margaret Patricia. “Patrick Anthony McCarran.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
11 (Fall-Winter 1968): 5-66, 12 (Spring 1969): 5-75; Edwards, Jerome E. Pat McCarran: Political Boss of Nevada
. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1982.
Davis, George H. “The Dissolution of the Institute of Pacific Relations, 1944-1961.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1966.
Dimmitt, Marius Albert, Sr. “The Enactment of the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kansas, 1970.
Dinnerstein, Leonard. “Pat McCarran and the Amended DP Act.” In America and the Survivors of the Holocaust
, pp. 217-53. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.
Edwards, Jerome E. “Nevada Power Broker: Pat McCarran and His Political Machine.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
27 (Fall 1984): 182-98. A revised version of an article previously published in Halcyon 6 (1984): 105-22.
___. Pat McCarran: Political Boss of Nevada
. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1982.
___. “Patrick A. McCarran: His Years on the Nevada Supreme Court, 1913-1918.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
18 (Winter 1975): 185-205.
___. “The Sun and the Senator.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
24 (Spring 1981): 3-16.
Green, Michael S. “Senator McCarran and the Roosevelt Court-Packing Plan.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
33 (Winter 1990): 30-48.
McCarran, Sister Margaret Patricia. “Patrick Anthony McCarran.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
11 (Fall-Winter 1968): 5-66; 12 (Spring 1969): 5-75.
Pittman, Von Vernon, Jr. “Senator Patrick A. McCarran and the Politics of Containment.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia, 1979.
___. “Three Crises: Senator Patrick McCarran in Mid-Career.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
24 (Fall 1981): 221-34.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Services Held in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Patrick Anthony McCarran, Late a Senator from Nevada
. 83d Cong., 2d sess., 1954. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1955.
Whited, Fred Elmer, Jr. “The Rhetoric of Senator Patrick Anthony McCarran.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oregon, 1973.
___. “Senator Patrick A. McCarran: Orator From Nevada.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
17 (Winter 1974): 181-202.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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