Level of fame: Famous
Executive summary: US Senator from Arizona 1987-
Military service: US Navy (1958-81)
"As far as me and the Vice Presidency is concerned... I spent a number of years in a North Vietnamese prison camp in the dark and (was) fed scraps, and I don't know why I would want to do that all over again." (Political rally, San Diego CA.)
Graduated 894th out of 899 from Annapolis.
Shot down over Hanoi on October 26, 1967. Conveniently for his North Vietnamese captors, McCain's ejection seat splashed down into Truc Back Lake -- just a short walk from the Hanoi Hilton POW camp. Was forced to sign a confession in August 1968, after four days of torture. "I am a black criminal and I have performed the deeds of an air pirate. I almost died and the Vietnamese people saved my life, thanks to the doctors."
June 1998: "Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father."
Father: John Sidney McCain, Jr. (b. 17-Jan-1911, d. 22-Mar-1981)
Mother: Roberta Wright
