For 10 points, name this Wisconsin Republican Senator who made wild allegations that certain individuals of the State Department were Communists.
In 1946, this politician defeated Representative Howard Johnstone McMurray in a Senatorial election and, in 1957, this politician's vacated Senate seat was won by William Proxmire. The right to criticize, the right to protest, the right of independent thought, and the right to hold unpopular opinions were stated in the Declaration of Conscience speech delivered by Margaret Chase Smith against this politician. This politician targeted Mongolian historian Owen Lattimore during the deliberations of the Tydings Committee. In 1954, Army attorney Joseph Welch asked him, "Have you left no sense of decency?" For 10 points, name this Wisconsin Republican Senator who made wild allegations that certain individuals of the State Department were Communists.
In 1946, this politician defeated Representative Howard Johnstone McMurray in a Senatorial election and, in 1957, this politician's vacated Senate seat was won by William Proxmire.
Joseph Raymond McCarthy