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John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936– August 25, 2018) was an Americanstatesman and military officer who served as a United States Senator from Arizonafrom January 1987 until his death. He previously served two terms in the United States House ofRepresentatives and was the Republican nominee for President of the United Statesin the 2008 election, which helost 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 aviatorand flew ground-attack aircraft from aircraftcarriers. During the Vietnam War,he was almost killed in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. While on abombing mission during Operation Rolling Thunder over Hanoi in October 1967, hewas shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the NorthVietnamese. He was a prisoner ofwar until 1973. He experienced episodes of tortureand refused an out-of-sequence early release.The wounds that he sustained during the war left him with lifelong physicaldisabilities. 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 ofRepresentatives, 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 generallyadhering to conservative principles,McCain also had a media reputation as a "maverick" for hiswillingness to break from his party on certain issues. His stances on gun controland LGBT issues weresignificantly more progressive than the party's base. After being investigatedand largely exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as one ofthe Keating Five,he made campaign finance reform one of hissignature concerns, which eventually resulted in passage of the McCain–Feingold Act in 2002. He was also knownfor 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 barrelspending. He belonged to the bipartisan "Gang of 14"which played a key role in alleviating a crisis over judicial nominations. McCainentered the race for the Republican nomination for president in 2000, but lost a heated primary season contestto Governor George W. Bush of Texas. He secured the nomination in 2008 aftermaking a comeback from early reversals, but lost the general election. Hesubsequently adopted more orthodox conservative stances and attitudes andlargely opposed actions of the Obama administration, especially withregard to foreign policy matters. By 2013, he had become a key figure in theSenate for negotiating deals on certain issues in an otherwise partisanenvironment. In 2015, he became Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.He refused to support then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trumpin 2016. After a diagnosis ofbrain cancerin 2017, he reduced his role in the Senate to focus on treatment. When McCaindied in 2018, he lay in state in the United States Capitol rotunda, and hisfuneral was televised from Washington National Cathedral.