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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MinnesotaMcCARTHY, Eugene Joseph
(1916—2005)
Senate Years of Service:
1959-1971
Party:
Democrat
McCARTHY, Eugene Joseph, a Representative and a Senator from Minnesota; born in Watkins, Meeker County, Minn., March 29, 1916; attended public schools in Watkins, Minn.; graduated from St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minn., in 1935, and from the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1939; taught in the public high schools of Minnesota and North Dakota 1935-1940; professor of economics and education at St. John’s University 1940-1943; civilian technical assistant in the Military Intelligence Division of the War Department in 1944; instructor in sociology and economics at St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Minn., 1946-1949; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1959); was not a candidate for renomination in 1958; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1958; reelected in 1964 and served from January 3, 1959, to January 3, 1971; was not a candidate for reelection to the Senate in 1970; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Senate in 1982; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1968, 1972, and 1992; was a resident of Woodville, Va., until his death on December 10, 2005; interment in Woodville, Va.
Bibliography
Eisele, Albert. Almost to the Presidency: A Biography of Two American Politicians
. Blue Earth, Minn.: Piper Company, 1972; McCarthy, Eugene. The Year of the People
. New York: Doubleday, 1969.
Adler, Bill, ed. The McCarthy Wit
. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, 1969.
Eisele, Albert. Almost to the Presidency: A Biography of Two American Politicians
. Blue Earth, MN: Piper Co., 1972.
McCarthy, Abigail Q. Private Faces/Public Places
. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1972.
McCarthy, Eugene J. America Revisited: 150 Years after Tocqueville
. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1978.
___. A Colony of the World: The United States Today: America’s Senior Statesman Warns His Countrymen
. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1992.
___. Complexities and Contraries: Essays of Mild Discontent
. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.
___. The Crescent Dictionary of American Politics
. New York: Macmillan, 1962.
___. First Things First: New Priorities for America
. New York: New American Library, 1968.
___. Frontiers in American Democracy
. Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1960.
___. Gene McCarthy’s Minnesota: Memories of a Native Son
. Minneapolis: Winston Press, 1982.
___. Ground Fog and Night: Poems
. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979.
___. The Hard Years: A Look at Contemporary America and American Institutions
. New York: Viking Press, 1975.
___. A Liberal Answer to the Conservative Challenge
. New York: Macfadden-Bartell Corp., 1964.
___. The Limits of Power: America’s Role in the World
. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967.
___. Mr. Raccoon and His Friends
. 1977. Rev. ed. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1992.
___. Other Things and the Aardvark
. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1970.
___. Required Reading: A Decade of Political Wit & Wisdom
. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988.
___. And Time Began
. St. Paul: North Central Publishing Co., 1968.
___. The Ultimate Tyranny: The Majority over the Majority
. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.
___. Up ‘til Now: A Memoir
. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987.
___. The View from Rappahannock
. McLean, VA: EPM Publications, 1984.
___. The View from Rappahannock II.
McLean, VA: EPM Publications, 1989.
___. The Year of the People
. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1969.
McCarthy, Eugene J., and James J. Kilpatrick. A Political Bestiary: Viable Alternatives, Impressive Mandates, and Other Fables
. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978.
McCarthy, Eugene J., and William McGaughey. Nonfinancial Economics: The Case for Shorter Hours of Work
. New York: Praeger, 1989.
Rinzler, Carol E., ed. Frankly McCarthy
. Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1969.
Sandbrook, Dominic. Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism.
New York: Knopf, 2004.
Stuhler, Barbara. “A Tale of Two Democrats: Hubert H. Humphrey and Eugene J. McCarthy.” In Ten Men of Minnesota and American Foreign Policy, 1898-1968
, pp. 194-251. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1973.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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