MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - On this day, Nov. 14, 1908, former Republican U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy was born in Grand Chute.

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Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most ...