Who was Joeseph McCarthy?

Answer 1

The simple answer is Joseph McCarthy was the elected Senator from Wisconsin from 1947-1957. To actually answer the question with a little more drive it will take some space. He is best known for his interesting career of hunting Communists in various places. It started in 1950 when McCarthy started making claims that there were Communist spies and sympathizers inside the United States in key positions. Throughout his short career he claimed there were spies in the government, the army, and his political opponents turned into spies too. These accusations proved baseless, but he was able to gain the power over a subcommittees to investigate the so called Communists. These investigations were usually televised and ruined carriers for honest folks. Then McCarthy got to the Army. He couldn't find anything initially; so he focused on a drafted dentist that refused to admit to any political affiliation. Later the dentist was discharged from the Army; this caused McCarthy to begin to berate a WW2 hero. This caused anger from numerous groups including President Eisenhower. This marked the beginning of the end for McCarthy carrier. The President and the Army launched an attack on McCarthy in the form of a hearing. The clamed was that McCarthy supposedly tried to get the Army to treat a former aid of his better. The hearings were watched on television by 20 million people who after watching him realized he was nothing more than a bully. This caused his popularity to decline among the citizens. The U.S. Senate saw an opening and began the process to censure McCarthy on 46 separate accounts. After two months the decision was to he be censured on 2 of the 46 accounts. This made it impossible for McCarthy to hold any seats in committees. From then on McCarthy was no longer of much interest. His speeches were barely attended or just ignored by his fellow senators; the news media no longer broadcast his every word. He still clamored about the evils of Communism, and that it must be utterly destroyed. He even condemned a Supreme Court pick because the judge called his investigations a witch hunt. No one really took him seriously though. After his censure his health declined and he slowly became depressed and drank more. On May 2, 1957 McCarthy died at age 48 from inflammation of the liver. His death marked the end of his career as well as the end of strong armed anti-communists senators from the state of Wisconsin that elected a Democrat that denounced McCarthy to his now vacant senate seat.