ENG - John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936 at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona and presidential nominee of the Republican Party in the 2008 presidential election.Altogether, he attended about 20 schools. In 1951 McCain attended Episcopal High School, a private preparatory boarding school in Alexandria. In high school, he excelled at wrestling and graduated in 1954. McCain graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. He became a naval aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War he was shot down and captured as a prisoner of war by the North Vietnamese. He was held from 1967 to 1973.
 
McCain retired from the Navy on April 1, 1981 as a captain. He was designated as disabled and awarded a disability pension. He has 17 military awards and decorations include the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star and Navy Commendation Medal, for actions before, during, and after his time as a POW. - Have you voted in the poll US president Obama vs McCain ? -
 
McCain moved to Arizona in 1981 and entered politics. In 1983, he was elected to lead the incoming group of Republican representatives. McCain won re-election to the House easily in 1984. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982, he served two terms, and was then elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, winning re-election easily in 1992, 1998, and 2004. Since January 1993, McCain has been Chairman of the International Republican Institute, an organization partly founded by the U.S. Government that supports the emergence of political democracy worldwide. McCain's Senate career began in January 1987. The term "maverick Republican" became a label frequently applied to McCain, and he has also used the term himself. McCain announced his candidacy for president on September 27, 1999 in Nashua, New Hampshire.
 
Meanwhile, in discussions over proposed U.S. action against Iraq, McCain was a strong supporter of the Bush administration's position. He continued questioning the progress of the war in Iraq. At the 2004 Republican National Convention, McCain supported Bush for re-election, praising Bush's management of the War on Terror since the September 11 attacks. McCain was also up for re-election as Senator in 2004. He defeated little-known Democratic schoolteacher Stuart Starky with his biggest margin of victory, garnering 77 percent of the vote.
John McCain formally announced his intention to run for President of the United States on April 25, 2007 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was formally nominated at the 2008 Republican National Convention in September 2008, together with his chosen running mate from Alaska, Governor Sarah Palin
 
McCain married with Carol Shepp in 1965. - Has changed the detail your opinion on US president Obama vs McCain ? - He adopted her two young children Douglas and Andrew. He and Carol then had a daughter named Sidney. McCain urged his wife Carol to grant him a divorce, which she did in February 1980. McCain and Cindy Lou Hensley (a teacher from Phoenix) were married on May 17, 1980. In 1984 McCain and his wife Cindy had their first child together, daughter Meghan. She was followed two years later by son John Sidney McCain IV (known as "Jack"), and in 1988 by son James ("Jimmy"). 1991, Cindy McCain brought an abandoned three-month old girl needing medical treatment to the U.S. from a Bangladeshi orphanage run by Mother Teresa. The McCains decided to adopt her, and named her Bridget.
 
At the age 72 years and 144 days, he would be the oldest U.S. president upon ascension to the presidency, and the second-oldest president to be inaugurated.

 

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10th October, 2008