McCarthy claimed that over 200 members of the government were communists. He affirmed that he had a list with the names of all the communist people that were working in American government.
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician. He bacame a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin serving from 1947 until his death in 1957.
He is remembered because he claimed that several Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers were like infiltrators in the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and the like.