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    Sen. John McCain, Former Presidential Nominee And Prisoner Of War, Dies At 81

    The two-time presidential candidate served for 30 years in the U.S. Senate and was a Washington institution known as a political maverick. He had an aggressive form of brain cancer.
    by Domenico Montanaro Aug 25, 2018 6 minutes
    As a Republican presidential hopeful in 2007, McCain speaks during a town hall meeting in Des Moines, Iowa. He won the nomination that year and garnered nearly 60 million votes on Election Day, a sign of his resilience.

    Arizona senator and former Republican presidential nominee John McCain died Saturday at the age of 81.

    McCain leaves behind his wife of more than three decades, Cindy; seven children, including three from his first marriage, to Carol Shepp; and his 106-year-old mother, Roberta McCain.

    Perhaps America's most famous prisoner of war, the former Navy pilot with a famous admiral father was shot down over Vietnam and spent 5 1/2 years as a POW in the north, most of that time in a prison sarcastically termed the Hanoi Hilton for the way inmates were treated.

    McCain endured torture at the hands of his captors, a cause he would speak out against 40 years later as a United States senator during the Iraq War following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. McCain even voted against President Trump's nominee to be director of the CIA, Gina Haspel, for her role in overseas detention centers.

    A Washington institution, McCain served in the Senate for more

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