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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—WisconsinJoseph Raymond McCARTHY
(1908-1957)
Senate Years of Service:
1947-1957Party: RepublicanMcCARTHY, 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; 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; co-chairman, Joint Committee on
the Library (Eighty-third Congress), chairman, Committee on
Government Operations (Eighty-third 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”; died in the naval
hospital at Bethesda, Md., May 2, 1957; funeral services were held
in the Chamber of the United States Senate; interment in St.
Mary’s Cemetery, Appleton, Wis.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American
Law; 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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