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Biographical information on John McCain

By The Associated Press
August 28, 2008
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NAME -- John Sidney McCain III

AGE-BIRTH DATE-LOCATION -- 71; born Aug. 29, 1936; Panama Canal Zone.

EXPERIENCE: U.S. Senate, 1987-present; unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate, 2000; U.S. House of Representatives, 1983-1987; director, Navy Senate Liaison Office, Washington, 1977-1981; captain, Navy pilot, 1977; prisoner of war, Hanoi, Vietnam, 1967-1973; commander, U.S. Navy, 1958.

EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree, U.S. Naval Academy, 1958; National War College, 1973-1974.

FAMILY: Wife, Cindy Hensley; five sons and two daughters; divorced once before.

QUOTE -- "I'm not running for president to be somebody, but to do something; to do the hard but necessary things not the easy and needless things." -- McCain, in announcing his candidacy on April 25, 2007, in Portsmouth, N.H.

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