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Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Artifact No. 1969.80.1186
Eugene J. McCarthy
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Ar…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Artifact No. 1969.80.1186

Eugene J. McCarthy

American, 1916 - 2005
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U.S. Representative from Minnesota (1949-1959)
Senator for Minnesota (1959-1971)
Democratic Presidential Candidate (1968)
Democratic Presidential Candidate (1972)
Democratic Presidential Candidate (1976)
Democratic Presidential Candidate (1988)
Democratic Presidential Candidate (1992)

Gene McCarthy was elected to the U.S House of Representatives for Minnesota in 1949. He became Senator for Minnesota in 1959. McCarthy was a Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1968, 1972, 1976, 1988, and 1992.
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Additional LBJ Library holdings related to this Individual can be accessed at https://www.discoverlbj.org/item/mccarthye Additional National Archives holdings related to this Individual can be accessed at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10582500Social Networks and Archival Context record: https://snaccooperative.org/view/42594315 
Place of Political Representation
Minnesota