Profile
Cindy McCain
Philanthropist and Businessperson
Female
Born
May 20, 1954
Age
59
Hometown
Phoenix, Arizona
Nationality
American
Cindy Lou Hensley McCain is an American businesswoman, and philanthropist, and the wife of United States Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain of Arizona. She was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, as the daughter of wealthy beer… Read More
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Cindy McCain
Age 59
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children
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John "Jack" McCain IVSon, Age 27 -
James "Jimmy" McCainSon, Age 25
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Bridget McCainDaughter, Age 21
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1954
Birth
Born on May 20, 1954.
TEENAGE
1968
14 Years Old
Cindy Lou Hensley was born in Phoenix, Arizona, to James Hensley, who founded Hensley & Co., and Marguerite "Smitty" Hensley (née Johnson). She was raised as the only child of her parents' second marriages and grew up on Phoenix's North Central Avenue in affluent circumstances. (Dixie L. Burd, who is the daughter of Marguerite Smith through a prior relationship, is her half-sister, as is Kathleen Hensely Portalski, daughter of Jim Hensley and his first wife, Mary Jeanne Parks.) Cindy Hensley was named Junior Rodeo Queen of Arizona in 1968.
1972
18 Years Old
She went to Central High School in Phoenix, where she was named Best Dressed as a senior and graduated in 1972.
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TWENTIES
She continued on at USC, and received a Master of Arts in special education in 1978.
1979
25 Years Old
Hensley met John McCain in April 1979 at a military reception in Hawaii.
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She married John McCain in 1980 and they had three children together, in addition to adopting another.
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1982
28 Years Old
Her father's business and political contacts helped John McCain to gain a foothold in Arizona politics. She campaigned with her husband door to door during his successful first bid for U.S. Congress in 1982, and was heavily involved in campaign strategy.
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THIRTIES
1984
30 Years Old
She moved back to Arizona in early 1984 and gave birth to the couple's daughter, Meghan, later that year.
She subsequently gave birth to sons John Sidney IV (known as "Jack") in 1986 and James (known as "Jimmy") in 1988.
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1988
34 Years Old
In 1988, inspired by a vacation that she took four years earlier to substandard medical facilities on Truk Lagoon, Cindy McCain founded the American Voluntary Medical Team (AVMT).
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1989
35 Years Old
In 1989, Cindy McCain developed an addiction to Percocet and Vicodin, opioid painkillers, which she initially took to alleviate pain following two spinal surgeries for ruptured discs and to ease emotional stress during the Keating Five affair.
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1992
38 Years Old
In 1992, her parents staged an intervention to force her to get help; she told her husband about her problem, attended a drug treatment facility, began outpatient sessions and ended her three years of addiction.
Surgery in 1993 resolved her back pain.
FORTIES
1994
40 Years Old
Meanwhile, in early 1994, Gosinski filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against McCain, in which he alleged she ordered him to conceal "improper acts" and "misrepresent facts in a judicial proceeding"; he told her he would settle for $250,000.
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1995
41 Years Old
AVMT concluded its activities in 1995 in the wake of the McCain prescription narcotics controversy.
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Although wary of the media and still having no love for the political world, McCain was active in her husband's eventually unsuccessful campaign for President of the United States in 2000.
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2001
47 Years Old
McCain became actively involved with Operation Smile in 2001, taking parts in its medical missions to Morocco, Vietnam and India.
FIFTIES
She was honored by the organization in 2005 and sits on its board of directors.
2007
53 Years Old
She was active and visible in her husband's second presidential campaign during 2007 and 2008, despite not wanting her husband to run initially due to bad memories of their 2000 experience and worries the effect on her children, especially son Jimmy who was headed to serve in the Iraq War.
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She participated in both of her husband's presidential campaigns and, in 2008, drew both positive and negative scrutiny for her appearance, demeanor, wealth, spending habits, and financial obligations.
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Continuing her humanitarian aid work with a January 2009 trip to Dubai, India, and Cambodia, she said that she was relieved that the campaign was over and that, while it had been "wild and nuts" at times, it had also been "a remarkable experience to be a contender for the highest office in the land."
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2010
56 Years Old
During her husband's eventually successful 2010 senatorial re-election campaign, she rarely made public appearances.
2011
57 Years Old
She did appear in March 2011 alongside Eastern Congo Initiative founder Ben Affleck to testify before a panel of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on behalf on continued monetary assistance to the Democratic Republic of Congo, in an environment where the Republican-controlled House was looking to make significant cuts to foreign aid.
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