[1] Democratic-Farmer-Labor.
Father: Michael J. McCarthy (b. 1875)
Mother: Anna Baden
Sister: Mildred
Sister: Marian
Brother: Austin
Wife: Abigail Quigley (m. 1945, separated 1968, d. 1-Feb-2001, one son, three daughters)
High School: St. John's Preparatory School, Collegeville, MN (1932)
University: BA, St. John's University Collegeville, MN (1935)
University: MA Sociology, University of Minnesota (1939)
Teacher: (high school)
Professor: St. John's University Collegeville, MN (1940-43)
Professor: St. Thomas College, St. Paul, MN (1946-49)
Professor: Political Science, New School for Social Research (1973-74)
US Senator, Minnesota (3-Jan-1959 to 3-Jan-1971)
US Congressman, Minnesota 4th (3-Jan-1949 to 3-Jan-1959)
Caring Institute Board of Trustees (Honorary)
US English Advisory Board
Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity
Americans for Democratic Action
Federation for American Immigration Reform Board of Advisors
Crisis
Draft Deferment: World War II 4-F
Funeral: Martin Luther King (1968)
Traveled to the USSR Jan-1970
Secret Service Codename Instructor
German Ancestry Maternal
Irish Ancestry Paternal
Is the subject of books:
Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism, 2004
Author of books:
Parting Shots From My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life (2004, memoir)