Eugene McCarthy

Also known as Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy, Eugene Joseph McCarthy, Gene McCarthy, Eugene J. McCarthy

American politician (1916–2005)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1857
Died: 1903
Works: 12

Top works

A tale of Lake St. John
Familiar fish, their habits and capture
The leaping ouananiche
A Colony of the World
The leaping ouananiche, what it is, where, when and how to catch it

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1945

Discography

Theme from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine1993

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners: 64
Total plays: 188

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,018x
<tt>edgeR</tt> : a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 39,007x
Common risk factors in the returns on stocks and bonds
· 1993 · cited 20,252x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,518x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,383x

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Quotes

“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.”
“Have you ever tried to split sawdust?”
“The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.”
“The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.”
“It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.”
“Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.”

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Key facts

Preceded by: Edward John Thye
Succeeded by: Hubert Humphrey
Born: Eugene Joseph McCarthy , ( 1916-03-29 ) March 29, 1916, Watkins, Minnesota , U.S.
Died: December 10, 2005 (2005-12-10) (aged 89) , Washington, D.C., U.S.
Party: Democratic
Spouse: Abigail Quigley ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. June 5, 1945</span>"}]]}'>1945 ; separated</span>"}]]}'>sep. 1969 )
Education: Saint John's University ( BA ), University of Minnesota ( MA )
Allegiance: United States
Branch service: United States Army
Unit: Army Military Intelligence Corps
Battles wars: World War II

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Image: 1964 Portrait Eugene McCarthy.jpg

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date of birth: 1916-03-29
date of death: 2005-12-10
Commons category: Eugene McCarthy
name in native language: Eugene McCarthy

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Eugene Joseph McCarthy (March 29, 1916 – December 10, 2005) was an American politician, writer, and academic who represented Minnesota in both houses of the United States Congress for over 22 years, first in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959, then in the U.S. Senate from 1959 until his resignation in 1971. A member of the Democratic Party, McCarthy sought the party's presidential nomination in the 1968 presidential election, challenging incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson on an anti–Vietnam War platform, and ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for president four more times.

Born in Watkins, Minnesota, McCarthy became an economics professor after earning a graduate degree from the University of Minnesota. He served as a code breaker for the United States Department of War during World War II. McCarthy became a member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (the state affiliate of the Democratic Party) and in 1948 was elected to the House of Representatives, where he served until being elected to the U.S. Senate in 1958. McCarthy was a prominent supporter of Adlai Stevenson II for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960, and was himself a candidate for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination in 1964. He co-sponsored the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, though he later expressed regret about its impact and became a member of the Federation for American Immigration Reform.