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Joseph McCarthy (14 November 1908 - 2 May 1957) was a Republican Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 to 1957. He is best known for making accusations of membership in the communist party or of communist sympathies against people working in sensitive sectors of the U.S. government.
Joseph McCarthy was a relatively unknown senator from Wisconsin nearing the end of his first term in 1950. He had penchant for the spotlight and was searching for an issue to latch onto to pump up his reelection campaign. China had just fallen to the Communists and the Cold War with the Soviet Union was well under way.