Famous Irishman - Joseph R. McCarthy

This week's famous Irishman is Joseph R. McCarthy.

Joseph R. 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 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period of intense anti-communist suspicion inspired by the tensions of the Cold War.