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A Dictionary of American History
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McCarthy, Eugene Joseph
McCarthy, Eugene Joseph (b. Watkins, Minn., 29 March 1916) Originally a college professor, McCarthy was elected to Congress in 1948 and to the Senate in 1958. He became the leading Democratic critic of the policies on the Vietnam War of Lyndon Johnson, whom he challenged for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination. Johnson’s narrow win in the N.H. primary was considered a moral victory for McCarthy and energized the Vietnam antiwar movement. McCarthy’s unexpected strength helped influence Johnson to withdraw in favor of Hubert Humphrey, but it also encouraged Robert Kennedy to enter the race. Kennedy siphoned away many of McCarthy’s supporters, and even after Kennedy was assassinated, McCarthy could not stop Humphrey’s nomination. He retired from the Senate in 1970.
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Chicago: Thomas L. Purvis, "McCarthy, Eugene Joseph," A Dictionary of American History in A Dictionary of American History (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Reference, 1995), Original Sources, accessed January 19, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8TI1R7IZ2DDGUKK.
MLA: Purvis, Thomas L. "McCarthy, Eugene Joseph." A Dictionary of American History, in A Dictionary of American History, Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell Reference, 1995, Original Sources. 19 Jan. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8TI1R7IZ2DDGUKK.
Harvard: Purvis, TL, 'McCarthy, Eugene Joseph' in A Dictionary of American History. cited in 1995, A Dictionary of American History, Blackwell Reference, Cambridge, Mass.. Original Sources, retrieved 19 January 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8TI1R7IZ2DDGUKK.
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