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John McCain returns to Jacksonville, Florida, after being a prisoner of war in North Vietnam and greets wife Carol, daughter Sidney, son Douglas and son Andrew in 1973.

CAROL MCCAIN

Carol Shepp McCain was born in 1937 in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. She attended Centenary Junior College for Women in New Jersey and first met John McCain while he was attending the Naval Academy. She married one of his classmates, and had two children, Douglas and Andrew, but divorced him in 1964. She and McCain re-met in Pensacola and they were married in 1965. Together, they had a daughter, Sidney. During McCain’s captivity in Vietnam, McCain raised the three children and became active in the POW/MIA movement. While visiting family in Philadelphia in 1969, she was in a car accident that almost took her life. After two years of surgery and physical therapy, she was four inches shorter and had some permanent challenges to her mobility. The couple divorced in 1980 due to McCain’s extramarital affair with Cindy Lou Hensley. Carol and John had become good friends with the Reagans after

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John McCain

American politician and military officer (1936–2018)

For other uses, see John McCain (disambiguation).

John McCain

Official portrait, 2009

In office
January 3, 1987 – August 25, 2018
Preceded byBarry Goldwater
Succeeded byJon Kyl
In office
January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1987
Preceded byJohn Jacob Rhodes
Succeeded byJohn Jacob Rhodes III

Senatorial positions

In office
January 3, 2015 – August 25, 2018[a]
Preceded byCarl Levin
Succeeded byJim Inhofe
In office
January 3, 2005 – January 3, 2007
Preceded byBen Nighthorse Campbell
Succeeded byByron Dorgan
In office
January 3, 1995 – January 3, 1997
Preceded byDaniel Inouye
Succeeded byBen Nighthorse Campbell
In office
January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2005
Preceded byFritz Hollings
Succeeded byTed Stevens
In office
January 20, 2001 – June 3, 2001
Preceded byFritz Hollings
Succeeded byFritz Hollings
In office
January 3, 199
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McCain’s broken marriage fractured other ties as well

Outside her Bel-Air home, Nancy Reagan stood arm in arm with John McCain and offered a significant -- but less than exuberant -- endorsement.

“Ronnie and I always waited until everything was decided, and then we endorsed,” the Republican matriarch said in March. “Well, obviously this is the nominee of the party.” They were the only words she would speak during the five-minute photo op.

In a written statement, she described McCain as “a good friend for over 30 years.” But that friendship was strained in the late 1970s by McCain’s decision to divorce his first wife, Carol, who was particularly close to the Reagans, and within weeks marry Cindy Hensley, the young heiress to a lucrative Arizona beer distributorship.

The Reagans rushed to help Carol, finding her a new home in Southern California with the family of Reagan aide Edwin Meese III and a series of political and White House jobs to ease her through that difficult time.

McCain, who is about to become the GOP nominee, has made several statements about how he divorced Car

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