The House Committee on Un-American Activities, popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee, was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives created in 1938. Their
Chairman Martin Dies of the House Un-American Activities Committee proofreads his October 26, 1938, letter replying to President Roosevelt's attack on the committee.
Lee Slater Overman headed the first congressional investigation of American communism in 1919.
Texas Democrat Martin Dies Jr. served as chair of the Special Committee on Un-American Activities, predecessor to the permanent committee, for its entire seven-year duration.
Democrat Francis E. Walter of Pennsylvania was chair of HUAC from 1955 until his death in 1963.
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Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican senator from Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face
House Un-American Activities Committee
…functions were transferred to the House Judiciary Committee. The committee's anti-communist investigations are often associated with McCarthyism, although Joseph McCarthy himself (as a U.S. senator) had no direct involvement with the House committee. McCarthy was the chairman of the Government Operations Committee and…
McCarthy in 1954
McCarthy receiving his DFC and Air Medal from Colonel John R. Lanigan, commanding officer of Fifth Marine Reserve District, December 1952
Herbert Block, who signed his work "Herblock", coined the term "McCarthyism" in this cartoon in the March 29, 1950, Washington Post.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States.