1908 - 1957
Joseph Raymond 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 at age 48 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. He alleged that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph McCarthy has received more than 9,188,398 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph McCarthy is the 2,108th most popular politician (down from 2,038th in 2019), the 664th most popular biography from United States (up from 677th in 2019) and the 69th most popular American Politician.
Joseph McCarthy was a United States Senator from Wisconsin. He is most famous for claiming that there were Communists in the United States government.
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Among politicians, Joseph McCarthy ranks 2,108 out of 15,577. Before him are Abdul Rashid Dostum, Liu Shan, Tang of Shang, Albert, King of Sweden, Herennius Etruscus, and Eadwig. After him are Maria Mandl, Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Senusret II, Omar Bongo, and Prince Philippe, Count of Paris.
1954 - Present
HPI: 64.76
Rank: 2,102
207 - 271
HPI: 64.76
Rank: 2,103
1601 BC - 1646 BC
HPI: 64.76
Rank: 2,104
1340 - 1412
HPI: 64.75
Rank: 2,105
220 - 251
HPI: 64.75
Rank: 2,106
940 - 959
HPI: 64.75
Rank: 2,107
1908 - 1957
HPI: 64.75
Rank: 2,108
1912 - 1948
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 2,109
1490 - 1527
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 2,110
1550 - 1604
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 2,111
1900 BC - 1879 BC
HPI: 64.72
Rank: 2,112
1935 - 2009
HPI: 64.72
Rank: 2,113
1838 - 1894
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 2,114
Among people born in 1908, Joseph McCarthy ranks 28. Before him are Mika Waltari, Amon Göth, David Oistrakh, David Lean, Nelson Rockefeller, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Franz Stangl, Carole Lombard, Manoel de Oliveira, William Saroyan, Dmitry Ustinov, and Werner von Haeften. Among people deceased in 1957, Joseph McCarthy ranks 23. Before him are Walther Bothe, Gerty Cori, Gabriela Mistral, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Irving Langmuir, and Alfred Döblin. After him are Curzio Malaparte, František Kupka, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Eliot Ness, Erich von Stroheim, and Heinrich Otto Wieland.
1908 - 1979
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 22
1908 - 1946
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 23
1908 - 1974
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 24
1908 - 1991
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 25
1908 - 1979
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 26
1908 - 1972
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 27
1908 - 1957
HPI: 64.75
Rank: 28
1908 - 1971
HPI: 64.72
Rank: 29
1908 - 1942
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 30
1908 - 2015
HPI: 64.44
Rank: 31
1908 - 1981
HPI: 64.28
Rank: 32
1908 - 1984
HPI: 64.13
Rank: 33
1908 - 1944
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 34
1891 - 1957
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 17
1896 - 1957
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 18
1889 - 1957
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 19
1896 - 1957
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 20
1881 - 1957
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 21
1878 - 1957
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 22
1908 - 1957
HPI: 64.75
Rank: 23
1898 - 1957
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 24
1871 - 1957
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 25
1867 - 1957
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 26
1903 - 1957
HPI: 64.11
Rank: 27
1885 - 1957
HPI: 63.86
Rank: 28
1877 - 1957
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 29
Among people born in United States, Joseph McCarthy ranks 664 out of 18,182. Before him are Douglass North (1920), Terrence Malick (1943), Hugh Glass (1783), Hugh Everett III (1930), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933), and Carl Barks (1901). After him are Jim Jarmusch (1953), Nancy Reagan (1921), Frances McDormand (1957), Stanley Milgram (1933), Michio Kaku (1947), and Bob Beamon (1946).
1920 - 2015
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 658
1943 - Present
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 659
1783 - 1833
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 660
1930 - 1982
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 661
1933 - 2020
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 662
1901 - 2000
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 663
1908 - 1957
HPI: 64.75
Rank: 664
1953 - Present
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 665
1921 - 2016
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 666
1957 - Present
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 667
1933 - 1984
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 668
1947 - Present
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 669
1946 - Present
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 670
Among politicians born in United States, Joseph McCarthy ranks 69. Before him are James E. Webb (1906), Nelson Rockefeller (1908), Boris Johnson (1964), Jim Mattis (1950), Donald Rumsfeld (1932), and Ted Kennedy (1932). After him are Michael Bloomberg (1942), Bill de Blasio (1961), Kamehameha I (1758), Eliot Ness (1903), Kamala Harris (1964), and Nancy Pelosi (1940).
1906 - 1992
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 63
1908 - 1979
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 64
1964 - Present
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 65
1950 - Present
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 66
1932 - 2021
HPI: 65.14
Rank: 67
1932 - 2009
HPI: 65.10
Rank: 68
1908 - 1957
HPI: 64.75
Rank: 69
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.55
Rank: 70
1961 - Present
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 71
1758 - 1819
HPI: 64.19
Rank: 72
1903 - 1957
HPI: 64.11
Rank: 73
1964 - Present
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 74
1940 - Present
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 75