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WASHINGTON — Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, whose insurgent campaign toppled a sitting president in 1968 and forced the Democratic Party to take seriously his message against the Vietnam ...

McCarthy returned to the Senate, although he retired from that body in 1971. In the early 1980s, with several books of commentary, essays and poetry to his credit, McCarthy launched a book tour of ...

Object Details Artist Richard Avedon, 15 May 1923 - 1 Oct 2004 Sitter Eugene Joseph McCarthy, 29 Mar 1916 - 10 Dec 2005 Credit Line National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; this acquisition ...

Eugene Joseph McCarthy (March 29, 1916 – December 10, 2005) was a long-serving Congressman from Minnesota. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the ...

Eugene McCarthy was elected to the Senate in 1958 and served until November 1967, when he launched his bid for the 1968 presidential election in an effort to challenge Lyndon B. Johnson.

WASHINGTON — It had been nearly 40 years since Eugene J. McCarthy stood up to a president from his own party and became the voice of America’s disenchantment with the Vietnam War. This weekend ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - When Eugene McCarthy ran for president in 1968, he pledged to fire J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI director who had outlasted presidents from Calvin Coolidge to John F. Kennedy.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former President Clinton eulogized the late Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy on Saturday for helping to shift momentum against the Vietnam War with his 1968 presidential campaign.

Anti-Vietnam War candidate Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota won Wisconsin's April 2 Democratic primary, following his second-place finish in New Hampshire the previous month. McCarthy's win in ...