Joseph McCarthy was born November 14th, 1908, in Grand Chute Wisconsin. He was a republican politician known infamously for his exploitation of the idea of Communist infiltration in the US government. He claimed he had a list of 57 State Department employees. Instead of giving the information over to the FBI, McCarthy kept this list and held Congressional hearings to investigate the list for himself. These hearings increased the celebrity of McCarthy and his assistant, Roy Cohn. Their fame was ruined when people caught on to their destructive malarkey.