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  • 2008-06-03 (xsd:date)
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  • John McCain's Sons (en)
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  • Family members of candidates, even though they are not standing for office themselves, often become fodder for political campaigns -- touted by supporters for their virtues or condemned by opponents for their faults. In the run-up to the 2008 U.S. presidential election, emailed items about the vhildren of Arizona senator John McCain, the eventual Republican nominee, outlined the military service of his sons: Keeping track of the children of Senator McCain is a bit complicated, as his offspring (both those he fathered and those he adopted) span two marriages and several decades. But here's how things stood back in mid-2008, when we first tackled this subject: Senator McCain has two sons (Doug and Andy) whom his first wife (Carol) brought to their marriage and whom he adopted when they were young. He and Carol also had a daughter (Sidney) together. From his marriage to his second wife (Cindy), Senator McCain has two more sons (Jimmy and Jack) and another daughter (Meghan), and the couple also have an adoptive daughter from Bangladesh (Bridget). Doug McCain, 48, is John McCain's oldest child. He is a former U.S. Navy pilot (like his father) who currently works as a commercial pilot for American Airlines. Jack McCain, 21, currently attends the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. Jimmy McCain, 19, is a member of the U.S. Marine Corps and has been stationed in Iraq. As the New York Times noted, Senator McCain generally avoids mention of his sons' military service on the campaign trail: However, Senator McCain did bring along his son Jimmy when he was invited to dinner at the home of Erin Flanagan, a woman who had posed a question about the Iraq war to the senator at a July 2007 Republican presidential candidates' debate in New Hampshire: (en)
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