Richard D. McCarthy

Richard Dean McCarthy ( * September 24, 1927 in Buffalo, New York; † 5 May 1995 Arlington, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1965 and 1971 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard McCarthy visited the Canisius High School until 1945 and then until 1950 the Canisius College in Buffalo. In between, he served from November 1945 to August 1946 in the U.S. Navy. At the time of the Korean War he was in the years 1950 to 1952 in the U.S. Army. In the meantime, he studied at the University of Buffalo, Cornell University and Harvard University. In the years 1952 and 1953 he worked as a newspaper reporter for the Buffalo Evening News. Between 1956 and 1964 he was director of public relations at the company National Gypsum Co. He was also active as an author.

Politically, McCarthy joined the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1964 he was in the 39th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Republican John R. Pillion on January 3, 1965. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1971 three legislative periods. These were shaped by the events of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement.

In 1970, McCarthy gave up another run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate. In the years 1975 and 1976 he was press attaché at the U.S. embassy in Tehran; 1978 to 1989 he headed the branch of the Buffalo News in Washington. Then he withdrew into retirement. Richard McCarthy died on 5 May 1995 in Arlington, and was buried in the National Cemetery there.