Eugene Joseph McCarthy (born
March 29,
1916) was a
congressman for
Minnesota's Fourth District from
1949 to
1959 and a
United States Senator for Minnesota from
1959 to
1971, where he served as a member of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee[?]. His unsuccessful bid for the
Democratic presidential nomination in
1968 focused on ending the
United States' involvement in the
Vietnam War. After leaving the Senate, McCarthy became a senior editor at
Simon and Schuster publishing[?] and a syndicated newspaper columnist. He is also a published poet.
Note: Senator Eugene McCarthy is not to be confused with the anti-communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy.