He was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour in July and had been undergoing medical treatment. His widow, Cindy, tweeted: "My heart is broken. I am so lucky to have lived the adventure of loving this incredible man for 38 years. He passed the way he lived, on his own terms, surrounded by the people he loved, in the place he loved best.
Mr McCain's daughter Meghan said the task of her lifetime would now be "to live up to his example, his expectations, and his love". Following news of his death, wellwishers waving flags lined the street as a hearse brought Mr McCain's body from his ranch in Sedona, Arizona, to a funeral home in Phoenix.
The six-term senator for Arizona and Republican presidential nominee was diagnosed after doctors discovered his tumour during surgery to remove a blood clot from above his left eye last July. When his plane was shot down, he spent more than five years as a prisoner of war. While in the custody of his captors, he suffered torture that left him with lasting disabilities. In politics, he took a conservative line on many issues, including opposing abortion and advocating higher defence spending.
He backed the invasion of Iraq and criticised President Obama for not intervening more in the Syrian civil war. However, he also gained a reputation as a Republican maverick who was willing to cross party lines on a range of issues. In July last year, just after his diagnosis, he took part in a late-night Senate session and gave the deciding vote - with a thumbs-down gesture - against partially repealing the contentious Obamacare healthcare law.
House of Representatives in After two terms, McCain ascended to the U. Senate in , replacing legendary Republican U.
Barry Goldwater, who in was the only other Arizonan to top the national ticket of a major U. McCain was re-elected to the Senate in , , , and John McCain to discontinue medical treatment, family says.
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Often called a maverick, McCain was a complicated personality and will be remembered as the most important political figure to emerge from Arizona in the past 50 years. Keating Jr. It was in the wake of that scandal, in the s and early- to mids, McCain's "maverick" reputation began to take shape, as he led fights for campaign finance reform and comprehensive immigration reform and against Big Tobacco.
On July 28, , McCain sided with two other GOP senators and all Democrats and cast a crucial vote — a literal thumbs-down on the Senate floor — that stalled Republican efforts to roll back the Affordable Care Act, a top Trump priority.
At one point in the early s, Democrats encouraged McCain to consider switching parties, and Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry approached him about serving as his running mate. But later, McCain veered to the right, a source of frequent frustrating to his previous admirers on the other side of the aisle.
March Slamming Putin call, McCain goes after Trump for 'congratulating dictators on winning sham elections'. March Meghan McCain shares new photo of Sen. John McCain. Interactive: John McCain's American story. McCain also had a love-hate relationship with his media-promoted reputation as a maverick, relying on it or distancing himself from it as the political circumstances warranted. The McCain vs. Bush fight in had taken a bitter turn in the South Carolina primary, where McCain and his allies accused their conservative opponents of trying to smear him and his family.
However, he and Bush reconciled as McCain geared up for his second presidential run. McCain also was a champion of the surge strategy that Bush employed in Iraq in His decision to gamble on the untested and little-known Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin as his running mate was cheered by the conservative wing of the Republican Party but may have hurt the GOP ticket among independent voters. However, McCain never had much of a chance of defeating Obama, given the political atmosphere of the time. Voters were widely dissatisfied with Bush, whose approval numbers were bad, and war fatigue had set in. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate.
Palin gave the campaign a short-term jolt, but proved to be disastrously ill-prepared and poorly-vetted for the job. As Palin incensed campaign aides behind the scenes, crowds at her rallies turned angry against Obama and shouted racist language about him. In late September, just before the first presidential debate, the Republican abruptly announced that he was suspending his campaign to return to Washington to work on what many voters saw as a Wall Street bailout.
But when he arrived at the White House for a bipartisan meeting with Bush, McCain came off as unprepared and had few contributions to make.
Congressional Democrats, meanwhile, gave the floor to Obama to represent his party. Realizing he was out of his depth, McCain appeared at the debate the next day. Sleep two hours wake up and cry.
Once again, he forged ahead. McCain fought to preserve the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military and campaigned against an economic stimulus package. He continued to travel extensively, including a trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, two weeks before he announced his diagnosis. By then , McCain moved a little less quickly through the hallways in the Senate.
His wit and humor, which made him famous, seemed a little duller. The schism was mutual. Even in February , as McCain struggled with cancer, the President told conservative activists that he was the reason why Obamacare remained on the books. When it came time for McCain to release what would be his final book, a coda to his life in politics and some last reflections on the current climate, he was not well enough to promote it.
That role fell to his longtime collaborator Mark Salter, and to a flattering HBO documentary about his life. McCain was determined to see the release of both. In recent months, McCain has spent much of his days on his cell phone, calling friends and telling war stories. Former aides and dignitaries, including Vice President Joe Biden, stopped by the Arizona ranch for visits.
He wanted to see them again, to relive the days aboard the Straight Talk Express, even if it was clear to many that he was forgetting names and details. He had been through a difficult campaign—indeed, a difficult career—and emerged stronger for it.
Even in defeat, he never let bitterness linger. As McCain liked to say, it could always get worse. Write to Philip Elliott at philip. By Philip Elliott. After his release, McCain served as a Republican congressman and senator from the state of Arizona, earning renown as a "maverick" who challenged party orthodoxy.
He launched a bid for the U. After winning a sixth Senate term in , McCain made headlines for his opposition to Republican attempts to repeal Obamacare and his battle with brain cancer. A day after deciding to stop treatment for his cancer, McCain died at his home in Sedona on August 25, McCain Jr. Both McCain's father and paternal grandfather, John S. McCain Sr. McCain spent his childhood and adolescent years moving between naval bases in America and abroad.
He attended Episcopal High School, a private preparatory boarding school in Alexandria, Virginia, until graduating in Following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, McCain graduated fifth from the bottom of his class from the Naval Academy at Annapolis in He also graduated from flight school in With the outbreak of the Vietnam War, McCain volunteered for combat duty and began flying carrier-based attack planes on low-altitude bombing runs against the North Vietnamese.
He escaped serious injury on July 29, , when his A-4 Skyhawk jet was accidentally shot by a missile on board the USS Forrestal , causing explosions and fires that killed On October 26, , during his 23rd air mission, McCain's plane was shot down during a bombing run over the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi.
He broke both arms and one leg during the ensuing crash. His captors soon learned he was the son of a high-ranking officer in the U. Navy and repeatedly offered him early release, but McCain refused, not wanting to violate the military code of conduct and knowing that the North Vietnamese would use his release as a powerful piece of propaganda. He was finally released, along with other American POWs, on March 14, , less than two months after the Vietnam ceasefire went into effect. Though McCain had lost most of his physical strength and flexibility, he was determined to continue serving as a naval aviator.
After a painful nine months of rehabilitation, he returned to flying duty, but it soon became clear that his injuries had permanently impaired his ability to advance in the Navy. McCain's introduction to politics came in , when he was assigned as the Navy's liaison to the U. While working in public relations for his father-in-law's beer distribution business, he began establishing connections in politics. McCain was first elected to political office on November 2, , easily winning a seat in the U.
House of Representatives after his well-known war record helped overcome doubts about his "carpetbagger" status. He was reelected in Having adapted well to the largely conservative politics of his home state, McCain was a loyal supporter of President Ronald Reagan 's administration and found his place among other "New Right" politicians.
Both in the House and the Senate, McCain earned a reputation as a conservative politician who was unafraid to question the ruling Republican orthodoxy. In , for example, he called for the withdrawal of U. Marines from Lebanon, and he later publicly criticized the administration's handling of the Iran-Contra affair. As one of the "Keating Five," McCain was accused of improperly intervening with federal regulators on behalf of Charles H.
Keating Jr. McCain was cleared of improper actions, although investigators declared that he had exercised "poor judgment" by meeting with the regulators. McCain weathered the scandal and won reelection to the Senate in and , each time with a solid majority.
His reputation as a "maverick politician" with firm beliefs and a quick temper only increased, and many were impressed by his willingness to be open with the public and the press.
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