Its author, Pat McCarran, a conservative Democrat from Nevada, was a dogged antisemite who likely intended the legislation to keep the United States safe not just from communists, but from Jews. In ...

From Martin Van Buren to Pat McCarran, for better or worse, the chairmanship of the U.S. Senate’s Judiciary Committee has been a wellspring of power. The committee handles up to half the ...

As Harry Reid International Airport transforms its signs away from its Sen. Pat McCarran past, many may not know what the airport was called before McCarran, when Las Vegas was growing in the post ...

named Patrick Anthony McCarran. Nevada never sent a native son to the Senate before Pat McCarran arrived on March 4, 1933, a rotund man with a double chin, wavy hair and a high-pitched voice ...