Editing Joseph McCarthy (section)

==Early life and education==
McCarthy was born in 1908 on a farm in [[Grand Chute, Wisconsin]], the fifth of nine children.<ref>{{cite book |last = Rovere |first = Richard H. |title = Senator Joe McCarthy |place = New York |publisher = Harcourt, Brace |year= 1959 |page = 79 |isbn = 0-520-20472-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Joseph McCarthy: Biography|url=http://www.apl.org/community/mccarthy|publisher=Appleton Public Library|year=2003|access-date=November 30, 2017|archive-date=December 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201041411/http://www.apl.org/community/mccarthy|url-status=live}}</ref> His mother, Bridget McCarthy (nee Tierney), was from [[County Tipperary]], Ireland. His father, Timothy McCarthy, was born in the United States, the son of an Irish father and a German mother. McCarthy dropped out of junior high school at age 14 to help his parents manage their farm. He entered Little Wolf High School, in [[Manawa, Wisconsin]], when he was 20 and graduated in one year.<ref>{{cite web|title=McCarthy as Student |url=http://www.myhistorymuseum.org/mccarthy/student.htm|access-date=September 7, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130228073138/http://www.myhistorymuseum.org/mccarthy/student.htm|archive-date=February 28, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

He attended [[Marquette University]] from 1930 to 1935. McCarthy worked odd jobs while at college, including as a dishwasher, parking-lot attendant, and boxing coach.<ref>{{cite book |last = Oshinsky |first = David M. |title = A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy |place = New York |publisher = Free Press |year=  2005 |page = 12 |isbn = 0-19-515424-X |orig-year= 1983}}</ref> He first studied electrical engineering for two years, then law, and received a [[Bachelor of Laws]] degree in 1935 from [[Marquette University Law School]] in [[Milwaukee]].<ref>In ''A Conspiracy So Immense,'' Oshinsky states that McCarthy chose Marquette University rather than the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] partially because Marquette was under Catholic control and partially because he enrolled during the Great Depression, when few working-class or farm-bred students had the money to go out of state for college. See {{cite book |last = Oshinsky |first = David M. |title = A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy |place = New York |publisher = Free Press |year=  2005 |page = 11 |isbn = 0-19-515424-X |orig-year= 1983}}</ref>