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Senator Joseph McCarthy

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Profession
Politician
Died
May 2, 1957
Zodiac
Scorpio
Born in
WI
About
Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin who took advantage of Cold War tensions to bring about Communist witch hunts, which destroyed many people's lives. He first rose to fame after an infamous 1950 speech in which he claimed to have a list of members of the Communist Party who were working in the State Department.
Family
He married a researcher, Jean Kerr, in 1953; the couple adopted a daughter together.

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