Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1908-11-14
Day of Death
1957-05-02
Place of Birth
Grand Chute, Wisconsin, USA
Joseph McCarthy
Biography
Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. He alleged that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Ultimately he was censured by the Senate in 1954 for refusing to cooperate with and abusing members of the committee established to investigate whether or not he should be censured. The term "McCarthyism", coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist activities. Today the term is used more broadly to mean demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents.
Filmography (21)
The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021
The Soul of America
2020
McCarthy
2020
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
2019
Where's My Roy Cohn?
2019
Coup 53
2019
The Lavender Scare
2019
RBG
2018
RBG
2018
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017
Imminent Threat
2015
Ethel
2012
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
2008
Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005
