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* November 14, 1908: Born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin
* 1935: Graduated from Marquette University Law School.
* 1939: Elected as Wisconsin's youngest circuit judge
* 1942-45: Serves as an intelligence officer in the Pacific theater
http://images.wisconsinhistory.org/700003030040/0303000904-m.jpg
* 1946: Defeats Republican incumbent in primary - then elected as Wisconsin's junior U.S. Senator
* 1950: Delivers speech claiming numerous communist spies work for the U.S. government
http://images.wisconsinhistory.org/700003030012/0303000259-m.jpg
* 1950: A Washington Post cartoonist coins the term "McCarthyism"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/Herblock1950.jpg
* 1953: Becomes chair of a Senate committee, begins investigation of the U.S. Army
* 1954: Army/McCarthy Hearings
* 1954: Edward R. Murrow's Program criticizes McCarthy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQQaX2h1plo
* 1954: Senate censures McCarthy
* May 2, 1957: Dies of acute hepatitis

and some alternatives listed in the sources
Source(s):
http://www.mahalo.com/Joseph_McCarthy
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/blakehs/staff/wagnerm/NetInv/mcc...
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/20th/1950s/mccarthy.html
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/feature/mccarthy/timeline.asp


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