Senator McCarthy cooking a chicken dinner, December 30, 1947
Courtesy of the Post Crescent

McCarthy helped make a meal for 50 guests in the home of New London attorney Francis Werner

Senator McCarthy, August, 1952
Courtesy of the Post Crescent

 

McCarthy signing The Story of General George Marshall, circa 1951
Courtesy of Marquette University Archives

 

 

 

McCarthy signing newspaper at the Rio Theater in Appleton, November 3, 1952
OCHS #2001.63.3

High school junior Robert Kools took this photograph of McCarthy the day before his re-election to the Senate. Organizers named the rally "Joe McCarthy day" in honor of the Senator

 

McCarthy casting ballot in Appleton's First Ward, November 4, 1952
Courtesy of the Post Crescent

 

McCarthy and Menasha's St. Mary High School students, spring 1953
OCHS # 20001.30.1

Students in this photograph went to Washington, DC for their senior class trip. Some of these women dressed in costume to celebrate Menasha's centennial.

 

McCarthy married Jean Kerr at St. Matthew Cathedral in Washington, September 29, 1953
OCHS#1999.41.1
Jean Kerr had worked for McCarthy as a research assistant since 1948. Close to 900 people attended the McCarthys' wedding, including Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, and Barry Goldwater.

 

The McCarthys at a Marquette University homecoming football game, October 25, 1953
Courtesy of Marquette University Archives

 

Senator McCarthy at a fund-raising dinner, August 27, 1954
Courtesy of Marquette University Archives

McCarthy became a single-issue politician, focusing almost exclusively on anti-Communism after 1950. Four days after the taking of this photograph, the Senate's Watkins Committee met to review a censure resolution against McCarthy.

The McCarthys adopted Tierney Elizabeth from the New York Foundling Home, January 1957
Courtesy of Marquette University Archives and Corbis

McCarthy died of acute hepatitis four months after the taking of this photograph on May 2, 1957