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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 ...
- 1958–1981
- Republican
- 7, including Meghan
Sep 1, 2018 · John McCain’s conduct as a prisoner of war in Vietnam was heroic. But the cause he sacrificed for was indefensible. The American government put McCain in harm’s way — and subjected him to ...
- Features Writer, Intelligencer
Jan 28, 2008 · John McCain spent 5½ years in captivity as a POW in North Vietnam. His first-person account of that harrowing ordeal was published in U.S. News & World Report on in May 14, 1973. Shot down in his ...
- Contributor
Aug 26, 2018 · In 1969, the release of a group of POWs came with reports that, as TIME put it, “the most seriously wounded among the prisoners was Lieut. Commander John S. McCain III, son of the American ...
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- Lily Rothman
Aug 27, 2018 · American Navy Lieutenant, and future U.S. Senator John Sidney McCain III, circa 1964. When John McCain made his first bid for public office in 1982, running for a House seat in Arizona, critics ...
- Greg Daugherty
Aug 26, 2018 · After a devastating ordeal as a POW in Vietnam, John McCain launched a political career, winning election to the U.S. Senate from Arizona for the first time in 1986. To his war-hero status, McCain ...
Aug 26, 2018 · John McCain is escorted by Lt. Cmdr. Jay Coupe Jr. to Hanoi's Gia Lam Airport on March 14, 1973, after 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. Horst Faas/AP He spoke about that shortly after his release ...