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Legislators in Crime & Notoriety

70 people, across 5 fields.

Joseph McCarthy 1908–1957Notorious FiguresSenator whose unsupported accusations and investigations gave “McCarthyism” its name and damaged civil liberties.Jefferson Davis 1808–1889Notorious FiguresPresident of the Confederacy whose defense of slavery and secession made him central to the Civil War and its memory.John C. Calhoun 1782–1850Notorious FiguresVice president and theorist of slavery and states’ rights whose doctrines intensified sectional conflict.