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John McCain

United States senator
Also known as: John Sidney McCain III
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Sean Wilentz
Sean Wilentz is a Professor of History at Princeton University. His primary research interests include U.S. social and political history. He is the author of The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008, and Chants...
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John McCain (born August 29, 1936, Panama Canal Zone—died August 25, 2018, Cornville, Arizona, U.S.) was a U.S. senator who was the Republican Party’s nominee for president in 2008 but was defeated by Barack Obama. McCain represented Arizona in the U.S. House of Representatives (1983–87) before being elected to the U.S. Senate (1987–2018). Although a self-described conservative “foot soldier in the Reagan revolution,” McCain clashed with his party’s right wing on a wide range of...

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