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Name
  
Richard McCarthy

Died
  
May 5, 1995


Education
  
Canisius College

Party
  
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Books
  
The ultimate folly, Elections for Sale

Richard Dean McCarthy (September 24, 1927 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York – May 5, 1995 in Arlington County, Virginia) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York, also known as Richard Max McCarthy or Max McCarthy.

Life

He served in the United States Navy from November 1945 until August 1946, and in the United States Army from November 1950 until October 1952. He graduated from Canisius College in 1950. He worked for the Buffalo News from 1952 until 1956. He was elected to Congress in 1964 and served from January 3, 1965 to January 3, 1971. In 1970, he ran in the Democratic primary for the nomination for U.S. Senator from New York against Ted Sorensen, Richard Ottinger and Paul O'Dwyer, but was defeated by Ottinger. He worked as a press attaché to the American Embassy in Tehran from 1975 to 1976. He was the Washington bureau chief of the Buffalo News from 1978 until his retirement in 1989.

References

Richard D. McCarthy Wikipedia


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