The US has never had a President named McCarthy. Joseph McCarthy from WI and Eugene McCarthy from MN were prominent US senators .
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McCarthy was a Democratic Senator while Johnson was President. He was noted as the peace candidate in the 1968 Democratic primaries whose success caused Johnson to drop out and Bobby Kennedy to jump into the race.
Secret Service agent who took a bullet in the abdomen while blocking President Reagen during an assassination attempt.
McCarthy's charges of communist spies in the State Department started what has been called the McCarthy Witch Hunt in February of 1950.
Joseph McCarthy died on May 2, 1957 at the age of 48.