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Not only did she win the special election to finish his term, she won her own full term in Congress by running on a platform of supporting pensions for the elderly and military expansion.
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Joseph McCarthy's Downfall Was Accusing the Army of...
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In the general election against Democratic opponent Howard J. McMurray, McCarthy won 61.2% to McMurray's 37.3%, and thus joined Alexander Wiley, whom he had challenged unsuccessfully two years earlier, in the Senate.
Three-term incumbent Republican Robert La Follette Jr. lost renomination to Joseph McCarthy, who then won the general election. }
Joseph McCarthy, U.S. senator who lent his name to McCarthyism. He dominated the U.S. political climate in the early 1950s through his sensational but unproven charges of communist subversion in high government circles. In 1954 his Senate colleagues officially censured him for unbecoming conduct.
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- Despite being the popular face of the Red Scare that followed World War II, Joseph McCarthy did not start it. Congress and the American public wide...
- Joseph McCarthy framed the Cold War ideological struggle in terms of Christian morality and immoral “communistic atheism.” Throughout the early 195...
- In 1953 Joseph McCarthy accused the U.S. Army of harbouring communist subversives. The Army then submitted a report alleging that McCarthy’s attorn...
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Candidates
1. Robert La Follette, Jr., incumbent U.S. Senator 2. Joseph McCarthy, judge of Wisconsin's 10th Circuit Court 3. Perry J. Stearns, candidate for Senate in 1944
Campaign
The Republican primary election was noted for its divisiveness and bitterness. The incumbent senator La Follette, who had just re-joined the Republican Party after the collapse of the Wisconsin Progressive Party earlier that year, was challenged by Judge Joe McCarthy of Appleton. Disbanding the Progressive Party and seeking election on the Republican ticket that same year cost him the support of many progressive supporters that belonged to the former, while the more conservative Republicans w...
Candidates
1. Howard J. McMurray, U.S. Representative from Milwaukee
Results
McMurray was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.
Candidates
1. Georgia Cozzini, candidate for governor in 1946 (Socialist Labor) 2. Edwin Knappe, former state assemblyman (1919–21) (Socialist) 3. Joseph McCarthy, judge of Wisconsin's 10th Circuit Court (Republican) 4. Howard J. McMurray, U.S. Representative from Milwaukee(Democratic)
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Oct 29, 2009 · At the time, McCarthy was a first-term senator from Wisconsin who had won election in 1946 after a campaign in which he criticized his opponent’s failure to enlist during World War II while...
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Apr 2, 2014 · U.S. Senate. In 1946, McCarthy won his race in an upset against Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. and entered the U.S. Congress as the youngest member of the Senate. McCarthy leaned toward...
