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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 or $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. |
