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==Final years==

==Final years==

Senator McCarthy's power and clout to continue the search for Communists in positions of power in America was extremely curtailed. McCarthy died of acute hepatitis in Bethesda Naval Hospital on May 2, 1957, at the age of 48. Friends assert that McCarthy had a history of alcohol abuse, a disease which may have led to his Hepatitis and physical decline.{{Fact|date=June 2007}}

Senator McCarthy's power and clout to continue the search for Communists in positions of power in America was extremely curtailed. After the Republicans lost control of the Senate in 1954, McCarthy, now a member of the minority Party, had to depend on public speeches to continue his campaign of warning the American people to the danger of Communism. He did this in a number of important addresses during those two and a half years.

 

In January 1957, McCarthy and his wife, Jean, adopted a baby girl and named her, Tierney. Unfortunately, several months later, McCarthy died of acute hepatitis in Bethesda Naval Hospital on May 2, 1957, at the age of 48. Friends assert that McCarthy had a history of alcohol abuse, a disease which may have led to his Hepatitis and physical decline.{{Fact|date=June 2007}} McCarthy was given a state funeral attended by 70 senators. McCarthy was the first senator in 17 years to have funeral services in the Senate chamber. Thousands of people viewed the body in Washington D.C. and it is estimated more than 30,000 people from Wisconsin filed through St. Mary's Church in the senator's hometown of Appleton, Wisconsin, where the clergy performed a Solemn Pontifical Requiem before more than 100 priests and 2,000 others. Three senators, George Malone, William E. Jenner, and Herman Welker, had flown from Washington D.C. to Appleton on the plane carrying McCarthy's casket. [[Robert Kennedy]] attended the funeral in Wisconsin. He was buried in St. Mary's Parish Cemetery in Appleton. McCarthy was survived by his wife, Jean, and their adopted daughter, Tierney.

== Retrospective views on McCarthy==

== Retrospective views on McCarthy==