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Eugene Joseph McCarthy (March 29, 1916 – December 10, 2005) was an American politician, writer, and academic from Minnesota.He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the United States Senate from 1959 to 1971.
Eugene McCarthy, a U.S. senator from Minnesota, announced his candidacy in the 1968 Democratic party primaries against incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson in November 1967, on a platform of ending American involvement in the Vietnam War. McCarthy's campaign was popular with young people and hippies who felt disillusioned from the government.
Kennedy died 26 hours later at Good Samaritan Hospital. At the moment of Kennedy's death, the delegate totals were estimated to be: [77] Hubert Humphrey – 561; Robert F. Kennedy – 393; Eugene McCarthy – 258; Kennedy's death threw the Democratic Party into disarray. Shaken by the event, Humphrey took off two weeks from campaigning.
Senator Eugene McCarthy won 56–35%; Kennedy received 6 percent as a write-in candidate. Kennedy was ineligible for the ballot because he entered the race following the filing deadline. [60] McCarthy easily won the uncontested Pennsylvania primary on April 23 and the Massachusetts primary on April 30.
She added that this work built on his activist work for justice for Ernie Lacy, a 22-year-old black man who died in 1981 in police custody after an altercation with the authorities. He fought in ...
Currently second in delegates at the time of his death to the pro-war Humphrey, the loss of Kennedy saw his committed delegates go for Humphrey over candidate Eugene McCarthy, who had been third in delegates. The Humphrey–Muskie ticket failed to win the confidence of Democratic voters, to unite liberals, or to attract anti-war voters.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy died today of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was eighty-nine years old. Posted by Cormac McCarthy on Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Mary, Linda and Paul’s firstborn, entered the pictured in 1969, just as the Beatles were splitting up. Over the years, she leaned into her mother’s passion for photography.