- The senior United States Senator from Arizona and was the Republican presidential nominee for the 2008 United States presidential election
Real name: | John Sidney McCain III |
John McCain Height
| How tall is John McCain? | 175 cm / 5 ft 9 in | Born: | 29 August 1936 Comment | How old is John McCain in 2024? / Age: | 87 years
| Where was John McCain born? | Coco Solo, Panama | Zodiac sign: | Virgo |
John McCain Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| How much is John McCain worth? | $21,000,000
| Nationality: | Panamanian | Hair color: | White | Eyes color: | Green |
Who is John McCain? / Facts
- McCain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into the United States Navy, graduating from the US Naval Academy in 1958
- He became a naval aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers
- During the Vietnam War, he was almost killed in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire
- In October 1967, while on a bombing mission over Hanoi, he 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 repatriation offer
- His war wounds left him with lifelong physical limitations
- He retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981 and moved to Arizona, where he entered politics
- Elected to the US House of Representatives in 1982, McCain served two terms
- He was elected to the US Senate in 1986, winning re-election easily four times, most recently in 2010
- While generally adhering to conservative principles, McCain at times has had a media reputation as a "maverick" for his willingness to disagree with his party on certain issues
- After being investigated and largely exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as a member of the Keating Five, he made campaign finance reform one of his signature concerns, eventually gaining passage of the McCain–Feingold Act in 2002
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