Senator John McCain is a late American politician who first served two terms as a congressman representing Arizona’s 1st district in the United States House of Representatives before becoming the United States Senator from Arizona in 1987 , a position he held until his death.
During his tenure as a senator, McCain twice ran for the office of President of the United States through the Republican Party. His first candidacy was in 2000 when he lost a hotly contested primary to the winner of the ballot, George W. Bush, then in 2008 when he was defeated in the general election by Democratic candidate Barack Obama.
Prior to his political career, McCain, who was born John Sidney McCain III on August 29, 1936, followed in his father and grandfather’s footsteps to attend the United States Naval Academy from which he graduated in 1958. He later became an aviator naval, reaching the rank of captain before retiring. Navy in 1981 to enter politics.
Family – wife, children, daughter, son, mother
Senator John McCain was married to Cindy LouHensley McCain, daughter of Jim Hensley, who founded Hensley & Co., one of the largest distributors of Anheuser-Busch beer in the United States, where she is currently president. Before Cindy, however, the naval officer was married to Carol Shepp McCain from 1965 to 1980.
McCain met his first wife between 1954 and 1958 while attending the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. The two, however, did not begin seeing each other until 1964 after Carol married and divorced one of McCain’s midshipman former schoolmates, Alasdair E. Swanson.
After a year-long relationship, McCaina married the now-divorced single mother of two on July 3, 1965, in Philadelphia. He adopted his wife’s two children; Douglas and Andrew then had one of his own, a daughter named Sidney. In 1967 McCain was captured in Vietnam after his plane was shot down and he subsequently spent more than five years away from his family in captivity in Vietnam. After his release in 1973, McCain achieved celebrity status, which led to numerous extramarital affairs. The couple further lived separately after taking a job in Washington which resulted in even more affairs although they later reunited and lived together.
In 1979, John McCain began a relationship with Cindy Lou Hensley whom he met at a military function in Hawaii. The pair, shortly after meeting, began dating as McCain filed for divorce from Carol. In January 1980, McCain and his first wife ceased living together and a month later she signed divorce papers, allowing him to exchange vows with Hensley on May 17, 1980.
Senator John McCain and his new wife went on to have four more children of their own; first, a daughter named Meghan who is currently working as co-host of American talk show The View, then sons John Sidney IV and James, before choosing to adopt another daughter named Bridget.
McCain is still survived by his mother, RobertaMcCain, who was born on February 7, 1912. She recently attended an event on Capitol Hill where her son’s colleagues commemorated him as a living requiem before his death.
Death of Senator John McCain
Senator John McCain died on August 25, 2018, just four days before his 82nd birthday. The former POW, who has battled and survived many other forms of cancer in the past, including melanoma, was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a very aggressive cancer that starts in the brain, in July 2017 after he was underwent a minimally invasive craniotomy to remove one of the blood clot above his left eye.
Lab tests after that particular surgery confirmed the presence of the tumor that all but sealed the Arizona senator’s fate. A day before his death, McCain’s family had announced that he would no longer receive treatment for glioblastoma which typically has a survival time of 12 to 15 months from the time of diagnosis. Without treatment, however, patients usually live only 3 months.
True to who he is, McCain at that time to findhe had the fatal disease, did not give up on life. After telling the public about his diagnosis, he announced that he was confident that future treatment would be effective but that during this time he would continue his job as a US senator. McCain continued to perform his duties, including voting decisively against his party just days after his diagnosis.
At the end of the year, he chose to return and stay in Arizona to receive treatment. Along with chemotherapy and radiation, McCain underwent different surgeries, including one for a diverticulitis-related infection before later choosing to discontinue treatment and spend his remaining days with his family by his side.