Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture ...

Wis., charged the U.S. State Department was infested with communists, touching off the infamous "McCarthy era." ...

FBI agents had gone to court to stop their information from being leaked to the public and endangering the lives and families ...

Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who had purportedly come here to speak in behalf of Sen. George W. Malone, now seeking re-election. Instead of speaking for Malone the Wisconsin senator leveled his ...

Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy (right) and Senator Karl Mundt (left) being interviewed by the media after initial discussions in the 36 days of the Army-McCarthy hearings in the Senate McCarthy’s most ...