Eugene McCarthy, American poet, academic, and politician (born 1916)

Eugene Joseph McCarthy was an American politician, writer, and academic from Minnesota. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959, and in the United States Senate from 1959 to 1971. McCarthy sought the Democratic presidential nomination in the 1968 election, challenging incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson on an anti–Vietnam War platform, and unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic nomination for president on four subsequent occasions.