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John McCain Biography
★ August 29, 1936 John McCain is born at Coco Solo
Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone. ★
★ 1954 McCain enters U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. ★
★ 1958 McCain graduates from U.S. Naval Academy. ★
★ July 3, 1965 McCain marries Carol Shepp. ★
★ July 29, 1967 McCain is almost killed aboard the aircraft
carrier USS Forrestal during a raging fire that takes the lives of
134 fellow crewmen. ★
★ October 26,1967 McCain is shot down while flying a
bombing mission over North Vietnam. McCain will spend nearly five and a
half years as a prisoner of war. ★
★ March 14, 1973 prisoner of war John McCain is
released. ★
★ March 17 , 1980 following a divorce from his first wife
McCain marries Cindy Lou Hensley. ★
★ April 1, 1981 McCain retires from the Navy. ★
★ November 1982 McCain wins election to the U.S. Congress
from Arizona. ★
★ November 1986 McCain wins election to become a U.S.
Senator from Arizona. ★
★ September 27, 1999 McCain announces that he will be a
candidate for the 2000 republican party presidential nomination. ★ ★ February 1, 2000 John McCain beats then Governor of
Texas George W. Bush in the New Hampshire presidential primary.★ ★ February 19, 2000 McCain loses South Carolina primary to
George W. Bush effectively ending his presidential quest for that year. ★ ★ April 27, 2007 McCain begins his second campaign for
president with a speech in New Hampshire site of his past presidential
primary triumph. ★ ★ January 8, 2008 John McCain wins the New Hampshire
Primary establishing him as the republican front runner. ★ ★ March 4, 2008 McCain wins a enough delegates to
secure the 2008 republican party presidential nomination. ★ ★ June 17, 2008 In the wake of $4.00 a gallon gasoline
McCain calls for lifting the ban on off shore drilling for oil. ★ ★ June 25, 2008 Campaigning in Las Vegas, John McCain
delivers a speech on energy policy. |
