Senator john mccain biography childrens chapter

Senator John McCain died on Saturday at the age of 81. The outspoken Republican battled brain cancer, and the administration of President Donald Trump, in his final days.

McCain got married in 1965 to his first wife Carol Shepp, with whom he raised three children.

He adopted Carol's two sons from a previous marriage, Douglas McCain, born in 1959, and Andrew McCain, born in 1962, and together they had a daughter named Sidney McCain, born in 1966.

Just two years after he married Carol, McCain was captured and held prisoner in North Vietnam.

He went on to spent more than five years in captivity as a POW in Vietnam, during which time he was tortured, underfed and kept in solitary confinement.

Carol and the three children lived in a Navy community in Florida during McCain's time in prison camps in Vietnam, The New York Times reported.

The couple's eldest son, who, like his father, was a U.S.

Navy pilot, would go on to be a pilot for American Airlines. Andrew worked as an executiv