- Born
- Died
- Birth nameJohn Sidney McCain III
- Nicknames
- The Sheriff
- The Maverick
- White Tornado
- The Mac
- Songbird John
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- John McCain was born on August 29, 1936 in Canal Zone, Panama. He was an actor and writer, known for Parks and Recreation (2009), John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls (2018) and Saturday Night Live (1975). He was married to Cindy McCain and Carol Shepp. He died on August 25, 2018 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
- SpousesCindy McCain(May 17, 1980 - August 25, 2018) (his death, 4 children)Carol Shepp(July 3, 1965 - April 2, 1980) (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- Was the first sitting senator to host Saturday Night Live (1975).
- Graduated, in 1958, fifth from the bottom of his class at the United States Naval Academy.
- At the time he was shot down, his father Admiral John S. McCain Jr. was Commander of the United States Pacific Fleet.
- President Donald Trump was forbidden from attending his funeral.
- As a U.S. Navy pilot, he was captured on 26 October 1967, after his plane was shot down while on a bombing run over Hanoi. He parachuted into a lake, breaking both arms and a leg. He was then imprisoned at the notorious North Vietnamese hell-hole, known as the Hanoi Hilton. He had described his five and a half year imprisonment as a nightmarish time, in which he was beaten and kept in solitary confinement. Twice he tried to hang himself, only to be cut down and assaulted by the guards.
- We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos. There will be genocide; and they will follow us home.
- War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
- I am fully prepared to be commander-in-chief. I don't need on-the-job training.
- The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.
- I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike in the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.
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