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John McCain

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 * John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936.
 * John McCain served in the Vietnam War.
 * The North Vietnamese held McCain as a prisoner of war for more than five years.
 * McCain moved to Arizona in 1981 and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982.
 * In 1986 McCain was elected to the Senate.
 * In 2005 McCain spearheaded efforts to close loopholes in laws aimed at preventing the torture and abuse of prisoners captured in the “war on terror.”
 * In 2007 McCain formally announced his candidacy for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.
 * McCain selected Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate the day after the democratic party ended its convention in late August 2008.