For 10 points, name this Wisconsin Senator who led a 1950's charge against Communists in the U.S. government.
A famous Herblock cartoon shows a barrel with this man's name on it resting on paint buckets, with the Republican elephant refusing to stand on it. This man told an opponent "I think you may be an authority on what a pixie is." His original campaign slogan was "Congress need a tail-gunner." This man was denounced by the Tydings Committee and his chief counsel was Roy Cohn. During one event, he was asked by Joseph Welch if he had "no sense of decency." This man became infamous after a Wheeling, West Virginia speech in which he claimed to have a list of 205 suspicious individuals in the State Department. For 10 points, name this Wisconsin Senator who led a 1950's charge against Communists in the U.S. government.
A famous Herblock cartoon shows a barrel with this man's name on it resting on paint buckets, with the Republican elephant refusing to stand on it.
Joseph Raymond McCarthy