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John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American

statesman and military officer who served as a United States Senator from Arizona

from January 1987 until his death. He previously served two terms in the United States House of

Representatives and was the Republican nominee for President of the United States

in the 2008 election, which he

lost to Barack Obama. McCain graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1958 and was commissioned into the United States Navy. He became a naval aviator

and flew ground-attack aircraft from aircraft

carriers. During the Vietnam War,

he was almost killed in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. While on a

bombing mission during Operation Rolling Thunder over Hanoi in October 1967, he

was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North

Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of

war until 1973. He experienced episodes of torture

and refused an out-of-sequence early release.

The wounds that he sustained during the war left him with lifelong physical

disabilities. He retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981 and moved to Arizona,

where he entered politics. In 1982, he was elected to the United States House of

Representatives, where he served two terms. He entered the U.S.

Senate in 1987 and easily won reelection five times, the final time in 2016. While generally

adhering to conservative principles,

McCain also had a media reputation as a "maverick" for his

willingness to break from his party on certain issues. His stances on gun control

and LGBT issues were

significantly more progressive than the party's base. After being investigated

and largely exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as one of

the Keating Five,

he made campaign finance reform one of his

signature concerns, which eventually resulted in passage of the McCain–Feingold Act in 2002. He was also known

for his work in the 1990s to restore diplomatic relations with Vietnam,

and for his belief that the Iraq War should have been fought to a successful conclusion.

He chaired the Senate Commerce Committee and opposed pork barrel

spending. He belonged to the bipartisan "Gang of 14"

which played a key role in alleviating a crisis over judicial nominations. McCain

entered the race for the Republican nomination for president in 2000, but lost a heated primary season contest

to Governor George W. Bush of Texas. He secured the nomination in 2008 after

making a comeback from early reversals, but lost the general election. He

subsequently adopted more orthodox conservative stances and attitudes and

largely opposed actions of the Obama administration, especially with

regard to foreign policy matters. By 2013, he had become a key figure in the

Senate for negotiating deals on certain issues in an otherwise partisan

environment. In 2015, he became Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

He refused to support then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump

in 2016. After a diagnosis of

brain cancer

in 2017, he reduced his role in the Senate to focus on treatment. When McCain

died in 2018, he lay in state in the United States Capitol rotunda, and his

funeral was televised from Washington National Cathedral.