[1] Democratic-Farmer-Labor.
Father: Michael J. McCarthy (b. 1875)
Mother: Anna Baden
Sister: Mildred
Sister: Marian
Brother: Austin
Wife: Abigail Quigley (m. 1945, separated 1968, d. 1-Feb-2001, one son, three daughters)
    High School: St. John's Preparatory School, Collegeville, MN (1932)
    University: BA, St. John's University Collegeville, MN (1935)
    University: MA Sociology, University of Minnesota (1939)
    Teacher: (high school)
    Professor: St. John's University Collegeville, MN (1940-43)
    Professor: St. Thomas College, St. Paul, MN (1946-49)
    Professor: Political Science, New School for Social Research (1973-74)
    US Senator, Minnesota (3-Jan-1959 to 3-Jan-1971)
    US Congressman, Minnesota 4th (3-Jan-1949 to 3-Jan-1959)
    Caring Institute Board of Trustees (Honorary)
    US English Advisory Board
    Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity 
    Americans for Democratic Action 
    Federation for American Immigration Reform Board of Advisors
    Crisis 
    Draft Deferment: World War II 4-F
    Funeral: Martin Luther King (1968) 
    Traveled to the USSR Jan-1970
    Secret Service Codename Instructor
    German Ancestry Maternal
    Irish Ancestry Paternal
Is the subject of books:
Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism, 2004
Author of books:
Parting Shots From My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life (2004, memoir)