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Senate Years of Service: 1959-1971 Party: Democrat
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McCARTHY, Eugene Joseph, a Representative and a Senator from Minnesota; born in Watkins,
Meeker County, Minn., March 29, 1916; attended St. Anthony Catholic School in
Watkins, Minn., and St. John’s Preparatory High School in Collegeville,
Minn.; graduated from St. Johns University, Collegeville, Minn., in 1935, and
from the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1939; taught in the public
high schools of Minnesota and North Dakota 1935-1940; professor of economics
and education at St. Johns University 1940-1943; civilian technical assistant
in the Military Intelligence Division of the War Department in 1944; instructor
in sociology and economics at St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Minn., 1946-1949;
elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses
(January 3, 1949-January 3, 1959); was not a candidate for renomination in
1958; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1958; reelected in
1964 and served from January 3, 1959, to January 3, 1971; was not a candidate
for reelection to the Senate in 1970; unsuccessful candidate for election to
the Senate in 1982; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for
President of the United States in 1968, 1972, and 1992; was a resident of
Woodville, Va., from 1978 until his death on December 10, 2005; interment in
Woodville, Va.
BibliographyEisele, Albert. Almost to the Presidency: A Biography of
Two American Politicians. Blue Earth, Minn.: Piper Company, 1972;
McCarthy, Eugene.
The Year of the People. New York: Doubleday, 1969.
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