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=Background Information On Joseph McCarthy by: Maddie=

Joseph McCarthy was born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin that was near Appleton, Wisconsin. He went to a small public school. He also had nine brothers and sisters. In 1946 he was the senator of Wisconsin.

Joseph McCarthy was born November 14,1908. He was born on a farm in Grand Chute, Wisconsin near Appleton, Wisconsin. He went to Underhill School which was a one-room schoolhouse. He completed eighth grade there. He got really bored with farming, so he started his own business. His business was becoming a chicken farmer. Then disease wiped out all of his chicken flock.

When Joseph was 14 he dropped out of school. Then he decided to go back and graduate. So he went to Little Wolf High School completing four years of work into four months. His good grades got him into Marquette University.

He was broke at 20 so he went to work as a clerk in an Appleton grocery store. He quickly became manager. In 1929 he transferred to another grocery store to manage. He went to Marquette University in Milwaukee, which he entered in 1936. In collage he coached boxing. Also, got elected for class president of his law school class.

Right after Joseph got his law degree, McCarthy opened a practice for Waupaca. At age 30 McCarthy was the youngest circuit judge elected in Wisconsin. That’s how he got to be the senator of Wisconsin. When Joseph was 49 he died of complications related to alcoholism.

In his early years in the senate he was unimpressive, but in 1949 with several Cold War setbacks and an increasingly anti-communist atmosphere at home, he did some more active things. In February 1950 there was the first communist hunt in Wheeling, West Virginia. He accused people if being communists and either sent put them in prison or got their jobs lost. He also ruined many people’s lives.

Bartlett, Charles. "McCarthy, Joseph Raymond." World Book Online Reference Center. 2007. [Place of access. Date of access.] <[|http://www.worldbookonline.com.ezproxy.cooklib.org:2048/wb/Article?id=ar350760>.]

American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Griffith, Robert. The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1970; Oshinsky, David. A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joseph McCarthy. New York: Free Press, 1983.