MCCAIN, John Sidney III, Senator from Arizona; was born in Panama Canal Zone on August 29th, 1936; attended schools in Alexandria, Va.; graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. 1958 as well as the National War College, Washington, D.C. 1973; pilot, United States Navy 1958-1981 prisoner of war Vietnam 1967-1973; was awarded many awards which included the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart, and Distinguished Flying Cross; elected as a Republican in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress; reelected to the Ninety-ninth Congress in 1984 and was elected until the 3rd of January, 1983 until January 3, 1987; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1986 and reelected in 1992, 1998, 2004 2010 and 2016 and was in office until January 3, 1987, until his death; chair, Committee on Indian Affairs (One Hundred Fourth Congress; One Hundred Ninth Congress), Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (One Hundred Fifth through One Hundred Sixth Congresses, One Hundred Seventh Congress [January 20, 2001-June 6, 2001], One Hundred Eighth Congress), Committee on Armed Services (One Hundred Fourteenth and One Hundred Fifteenth Congresses) He was a failed presidential candidate in 2000; was unsuccessful to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000; was a failed Republican candidate for president of the United States in 2008; passed away in Cornville, Ariz., on the 25th of August 2018, and laid in the state of Arizona in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, August 31, 2018; interment at the United States Naval Academy Cemetery, Annapolis, Md.

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