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Who was the prominent U.S. senator who conducted Senate hearings designed to remove suspected Communists from the U.S. military and from government jobs?

A. J. Edgar Hoover
B. Edward R. Murrow
C. Dwight D. Eisenhower
D. Joseph McCarthy

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It was D. Joseph McCarthy
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D. Joseph McCarthy was the prominent U.S. senator who conducted Senate hearings designed to remove suspected Communists from the U.S. military and from government jobs.
He was a US senator from Wisconsin from 1947 to 1957, when he died.
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