John McCain

Extracted Attributes

• Born

  1936-08-29

• Died

  2018-08-25

• Spouse

  Cindy Lou Hensley McCain

• Brother

  Joseph Pinckney McCain II

• Children

  Seven

• Education

  U.S. Naval Academy (graduated 1958), National War College

• Full Name

  John Sidney McCain III

• Known For

  "Maverick" politician, Vietnam War POW, campaign finance reform, bipartisan efforts

• Occupation

  Statesman, Naval Officer, Politician, US Representative, US Senator, Naval Aviator

• Father's Rank

  Four-star admiral

• Military Rank

  Captain (retired)

• Cause of Death

  Glioblastoma (brain cancer)

• Place of Birth

  Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone

• Place of Death

  Cornville, Arizona, U.S.

• Political Party

  Republican Party

• Military Service

  U.S. Navy (1958-1981)

• Grandfather's Rank

  Four-star admiral

• Physical Condition

  Sustained lifelong physical disabilities from POW experience

Timeline

• Born John Sidney McCain III in Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone. (Source: summary, wikipedia, wikidata, dbpedia, web_search_results)

  1936-08-29

• Graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and received a commission in the U.S. Navy. (Source: summary, wikipedia, dbpedia)

  1958

• Almost died in the USS Forrestal fire. (Source: wikipedia, dbpedia)

  1967

• Shot down over Hanoi during Operation Rolling Thunder, captured by the North Vietnamese, and became a prisoner of war. (Source: summary, wikipedia, dbpedia)

  1967-10

• Released as a prisoner of war. (Source: summary, wikipedia, dbpedia)

  1973

• Retired from the Navy as a Captain. (Source: summary, wikipedia, dbpedia)

  1981

• Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. (Source: summary, wikipedia, dbpedia)

  1982

• Began serving as U.S. Representative for Arizona's 1st district. (Source: web_search_results)

  1983-01-03

• Elected to the U.S. Senate, succeeding Barry Goldwater. (Source: summary, wikipedia, dbpedia)

  1986

• Began serving as U.S. Senator for Arizona. (Source: web_search_results)

  1987-01-03

• Co-authored the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act with Senator Daniel Inouye and Representative Mo Udall. (Source: web_search_results)

  1988

• Worked to restore diplomatic relations with Vietnam. (Source: summary, wikipedia, dbpedia)

  1990s

• Began first term as Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. (Source: wikipedia, dbpedia)

  1997

• Received the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award with Russ Feingold. (Source: wikipedia)

  1999

• Ran for the Republican presidential nomination but lost to George W. Bush. (Source: summary, wikipedia, dbpedia)

  2000

• The McCain-Feingold Act (Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act) was passed into law. (Source: summary, wikipedia, dbpedia)

  2002

• Began second term as Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. (Source: wikipedia, dbpedia)

  2003

• Opposed the planned implementation of the Bush tax cuts. (Source: web_search_results)

  2004

• Secured the Republican presidential nomination but lost the general election to Barack Obama. (Source: summary, wikipedia, dbpedia)

  2008

• Became Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. (Source: summary, wikipedia, dbpedia)

  2015

• Refused to support Donald Trump in the presidential election. (Source: wikipedia, dbpedia)

  2016

• Diagnosed with glioblastoma (brain cancer). (Source: summary, wikipedia, dbpedia)

  2017

• Cast the deciding vote against the American Health Care Act, which would have repealed the Affordable Care Act. (Source: summary, wikipedia, dbpedia, related_documents)

  2017

• Died from glioblastoma in Cornville, Arizona, at the age of 81. (Source: summary, wikipedia, wikidata, dbpedia, web_search_results)

  2018-08-25

• Posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden. (Source: summary, dbpedia)

  2022

John McCain

John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American statesman and naval officer who represented Arizona in the United States Congress for over 35 years, first as a U.S. representative from 1983 to 1987, then as a U.S. senator from 1987 until his death in 2018. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party's nominee in the 2008 presidential election. Born into the prominent McCain family in the Panama Canal Zone, McCain graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958 and received a commission in the U.S. Navy. He became a naval aviator and flew ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he almost died in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. While on a bombing mission during Operation Rolling Thunder over Hanoi in October 1967, McCain was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war until 1973. McCain experienced episodes of torture and refused an out-of-sequence early release. He sustained wounds that left him with lifelong physical disabilities. McCain retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981 and moved to Arizona. In 1982, McCain was elected to the House of Representatives, where he served two terms. Four years later, he was elected to the Senate, where he served six terms. While generally adhering to conservative principles, McCain also gained a reputation as a "maverick" for his willingness to break from his party on certain issues, including LGBT rights, gun regulations, and campaign finance reform where his stances were more moderate than those of the party's base. McCain was investigated and largely exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as one of the Keating Five. He then made regulating the financing of political campaigns one of his signature concerns, which eventually resulted in the passage of the McCain–Feingold Act in 2002. With Russ Feingold, McCain would receive the 1999 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. He was also known for his work in the 1990s to restore diplomatic relations with Vietnam. McCain chaired the Senate Commerce Committee from 1997 to 2001 and 2003 to 2005, where he opposed pork barrel spending and earmarks. He belonged to the bipartisan "Gang of 14", which played a key role in alleviating a crisis over judicial nominations. McCain entered the race for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination, but lost a heated primary season contest to George W. Bush. He secured the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, beating fellow candidates Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, though he lost the general election to Barack Obama. McCain subsequently adopted more orthodox conservative stances and attitudes and largely opposed actions of the Obama administration, especially with regard to foreign policy matters. In 2015, he became Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He refused to support Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election and later became a vocal critic of the first Trump administration. While McCain opposed the Obama-era Affordable Care Act (ACA), he cast the deciding vote against the American Health Care Act of 2017, which would have partially repealed the ACA. After being diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2017, he reduced his role in the Senate to focus on treatment, dying from the disease in 2018.

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• John McCain - Wikipedia

  John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American statesman and naval officer who represented Arizona in the United States Congress for over 35 years, first as a U.S. representative from 1983 to 1987, then as a U.S. senator from 1987 until his death in 2018. A member of the Republican Party "Republican Party (United States)"), he was the party's nominee in the 2008 presidential election. [...] | | | | | | | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona's 1st district | | In office January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1987 | | Preceded by | John Jacob Rhodes | | Succeeded by | John Jacob Rhodes III | | | | Personal details | | Born | John Sidney McCain III (1936-08-29)August 29, 1936 Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone | | Died | August 25, 2018(2018-08-25) (aged 81) Cornville, Arizona, U.S. | | Resting place | United States Naval Academy Cemetery | [...] McCain entered the race for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination, but lost a heated primary season contest to George W. Bush. He secured the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, beating fellow candidates Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, though he lost the general election to Barack Obama. McCain subsequently adopted more orthodox conservative stances and attitudes and largely opposed actions of the Obama administration, especially with regard to foreign policy matters. In 2015, he

• John McCain | Biography, Vietnam Experience, Political Career ...

  John McCain (born August 29, 1936, Panama Canal Zone—died August 25, 2018, Cornville, Arizona, U.S.) was a U.S. senator who was the Republican Party’s nominee for president in 2008 but was defeated by Barack Obama. McCain represented Arizona in the U.S. House of Representatives (1983–87) before being elected to the U.S. Senate (1987–2018). Although a self-described conservative “foot soldier in the Reagan revolution,” McCain clashed with his party’s right wing on a wide range of issues. Long a [...] McCain relocated to Arizona, and in 1982 he was elected to the House of Representatives. After serving two terms, he successfully ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1986. Two years later he gained national visibility by delivering a well-received address to the Republican National Convention. But McCain also became embroiled in the most spectacular case to arise out of the savings and loan scandals of the 1980s, as a result of his connections with Charles Keating, Jr., the head of the Lincoln

• Senator John McCain (August 29, 1936 - August 25, 2018)

  Following his 22 years of military service to his country, John McCain III won his first election campaign and became a freshman congressman in the United States House of Representatives. He served four years in the 98th United States Congress before running and winning Arizona's U.S. Senate race for a seat in the 100th Congress. During his four terms in the Senate, he chaired the Indian Affairs, Armed Services, and Commerce Committees.He also made two bids for the Presidency in 2000 and 2008. [...] In addition to a lifetime of service to the nation, Senator McCain was also a writer. He authored or coauthored several books including but not limited to: _The Restless Wave_, _Faith of My Fathers_, _Why Courage Matters_, _Character is Destiny_, _Hard Call_, and _Worth the Fighting For_. Senator McCain is survived by his wife Cindy Lou Hensley McCain, seven children, and his brother Joseph Pinckney McCain II. Return to top []( []( Image []( 7: National Archives Logo Image 8: Thumbnail [...] The senior senator from Arizona was elected in 1986 and served in the United States Senate for 31 years until his passing. Image 5: Thumbnail Lt. Commander McCain and President Nixon, April 14, 1973

• Political positions of John McCain - Wikipedia

  McCain was considered a moderate or centrist at different times in his career such as when he opposed the planned implementation of the Bush tax cuts in 2004. It was often reported that McCain had grown more conservative throughout his tenure in the Senate, according to various studies. During Barack Obama's presidency, McCain was one of five Republicans most likely to vote in line with President Obama's position on legislation; he voted with Obama's position more than half the time in 2013. [...] As a senator, McCain often supported the Native American agenda, advocating self-governance and sovereignty and tribe control of adoptions. Along with Senator Daniel Inouye and Representative Mo Udall, McCain was one of the main writers of the 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, which codified rules regarding Native American gambling enterprises and established the balance between Indian tribal sovereignty and regulatory oversight by the states of such activity. The Act enabled the growth of [...] McCain was a strong proponent of free trade. He supported the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the existing General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) agreements, U.S. participation in the World Trade Organization, and opposed renegotiation of trade agreements, saying, "...the U.S. should engage in multilateral, regional and bilateral efforts to reduce barriers to trade, level the global playing field and build effective enforcement of global trading rules." In 2004, when McCain

• John McCain Was A Maverick — And A Politician | FiveThirtyEight

  John McCain, the senator from Arizona, passed away from brain cancer on Saturday at the age of 81. He weathered the sharp attacks from opponents and voters that all politicians do, but his burnish of authenticity, increasingly rare in public figures, spoke to our American ideal of independence, and his early sacrifice as a prisoner of war pulled at our patriotism. McCain was who we wanted our politicians to be, even if he didn’t always live up to our own idea of who he was. [...] McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 to a family that was as close to U.S. naval royalty as they come. His grandfather was a four star admiral, as was his father, who was head of U.S. Pacific Command when the future senator was captured by the North Vietnamese and held as a prisoner of war for five and a half years. It is McCain’s brutal term of imprisonment and survival that has made him an almost honorary member of the greatest generation.

• Award

  Presidential Medal of Freedom

• Image

  

• Gender

  male

• Educated At

  National War College

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  screenwriter

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date Of Birth

  8/29/1936

• Date Of Death

  8/25/2018

• Place Of Birth

  Coco Solo

• Place Of Death

  Cornville

John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the United States House of Representatives and was the Republican nominee for president of the United States in the 2008 election, which he lost to Barack Obama. McCain graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1958 and received a commission in the United States Navy. He became a naval aviator and flew ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, McCain almost died in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. While on a bombing mission during Operation Rolling Thunder over Hanoi in October 1967, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. McCain was a prisoner of war until 1973. He experienced episodes of torture and refused an out-of-sequence early release. During the war, McCain sustained wounds that left him with lifelong physical disabilities. He retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981 and moved to Arizona. In 1982, McCain was elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he served two terms. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, succeeding the 1964 Republican presidential nominee and conservative icon Barry Goldwater upon his retirement. McCain easily won reelection five times. While generally adhering to conservative principles, McCain also gained a reputation as a "maverick" for his willingness to break from his party on certain issues, including LGBT rights, gun regulations, and campaign finance reform where his stances were more moderate than those of the party's base. McCain was investigated and largely exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as one of the Keating Five; he then made regulating the financing of political campaigns one of his signature concerns, which eventually resulted in passage of the McCain–Feingold Act in 2002. He was also known for his work in the 1990s to restore diplomatic relations with Vietnam. McCain chaired the Senate Commerce Committee from 1997 to 2001 and 2003 to 2005, where he opposed pork barrel spending and earmarks. He belonged to the bipartisan "Gang of 14", which played a key role in alleviating a crisis over judicial nominations. McCain entered the race for the Republican nomination for president in 2000 but lost a heated primary season contest to Governor George W. Bush of Texas. He secured the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, beating fellow candidates Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, though he lost the general election to Barack Obama. McCain subsequently adopted more orthodox conservative stances and attitudes and largely opposed actions of the Obama administration, especially with regard to foreign policy matters. In 2015, he became Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He refused to support then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in 2016; McCain won re-election to a sixth and final term that same year. McCain was a vocal critic of the Trump administration. While McCain opposed the Obama-era Affordable Care Act (ACA), he cast the deciding vote against the ACA-repealing American Health Care Act of 2017. After being diagnosed with brain cancer in 2017, he reduced his role in the Senate in order to focus on treatment. He died in 2018 aged 81. Following his death, McCain lay in state in the Arizona State Capitol rotunda and then in the United States Capitol rotunda. His funeral was televised from the Washington National Cathedral, with the former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama giving eulogies. In 2022, President Joe Biden awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously.