# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-n-welch
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:03:56.282Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-n-welch"
name: "Joseph N. Welch"
slug: "joseph-n-welch"
description: "Joseph Nye Welch was an American lawyer who served as the chief counsel for the United States Army while it was under investigation for alleged Communist activities by Senator Joseph McCarthy's Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, an investigation known as the Army–McCarthy hearings. His confrontation with McCarthy during the hearings, in which he asked McCarthy \"Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?\", is seen as a turning point in the history of McCarthyism."
tagline: "American lawyer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Welch-McCarthy-Hearings.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1890-10-22"
deathDate: "1960-10-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.02
  momentum:             18.03673664122137
  historical:           6.330073333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 170
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919583/"
    handle:    "nm0919583"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_N._Welch"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%86._%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B4"
    title: "جوزيف ن. ويلش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%86._%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B4"
    title: "چوزيف ن. ويلش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_N._Welch"
    title: "Joseph N. Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%96%D7%A3_%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A5'"
    title: "ג'וזף ולץ'"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Welch"
    title: "Joseph Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6285735"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1574350"
    title: "Joseph N. Welch"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump