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Joseph McCarthy takes office as a Republican senator from Wisconson. In a primary election, McCarthy had defeated Sen. Robert La Follette Jr., son of one of the icons of American liberalism. Branding himself as “Tail Gunner Joe,” McCarthy had run a vicious, negative campaign against his opponent with accusations that La Follette was a war profiteer.
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McCarthy experienced a meteoric rise in national profile on when he gave a Lincoln Day speech to the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling.
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Eisenhower wins the election against Adlai Stevenson, serving until 1961.
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After his Wheeling speech, and the public's approval, McCarthy gets reelcted. While suprising today, the 1952 America was in love with McCarthy, and wanted to exterminate any sign of Communists.
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Edward Murrow publishes see it now, a documentary about the lies that McCarthy had told.
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The set of hearings that made McCarthy so infamous. In these hearings is where most of his accusations were made.
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The Senate votes 67 to 22 in favor of condemning – but not censuring – McCarthy for false accusations and his crass demeanor throughout the Army-McCarthy hearings.
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Joseph McCarthy dies of alcoholism.
