Roberta McCain

Wright + Admiral + Senator

Female

Born Feb 7, 1912

Hometown Muskogee, Oklahoma

Nationality United States

Roberta Wright McCain is the widow of Admiral John S. McCain, Jr. (married from 1933 to 1981) and mother of the Republican Arizona Senator and two-time Presidential candidate John S. McCain III.

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Jack McCain
Married

Family

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Roberta McCain

d.4713 BC

children

John McCain
Son, Age 76
Joe McCain
Son, Age 71

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Mccain's Sentimental Journey; Memories, Farewells And Tears
NYTimes - Nov 05, 2008

Senator John McCain had always watched a movie during the political dead time of Election Day, but on Tuesday he dispensed with that tradition to end a presidential campaign that both sides waged at warp speed. Then, too, his aides said, he was too restless to hang around Phoenix all day. So Mr. McCain headed off for a nearly full day of
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In A City Of Many Democrats, A Haven For G.O.P. Women
NYTimes - Oct 12, 2008

The imposing metal elephant guarding the entrance to one of New York City's venerable buildings is appropriate -- after all, the building houses the Women's National Republican Club, one of the nation's oldest organizations of female Republicans and the only one with a clubhouse for its members. Many New Yorkers have no idea that the elegant
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Op Ed Columnist; Mc Cain's Green Eyed Monster
NYTimes - Aug 06, 2008

Not since Iago and Othello obsessed on the comely Cassio, not since Richard of Gloucester killed his two nephews, not since Nixon and Johnson glowered at the glittering J.F.K., has there been such an unseemly outpouring of boy envy. Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson and John Edwards have all been crazed with envy over the ascendance of the new ''It''
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Op Ed Columnist; Angry Clinton Women Mc Cain?
NYTimes - Jun 15, 2008

TEN years ago John McCain had to apologize for regaling a Republican audience with a crude sexual joke about Hillary and Chelsea Clinton and Janet Reno. Last year he had to explain why he didn't so much as flinch when a supporter asked him on camera, ''How do we beat the bitch?'' But these days Mr. McCain just loves the women. In his televised
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1912 Birth Roberta Wright and her twin sister, Rowena (1912-2011), were born in Muskogee, Oklahoma on February 7, 1912. … Read More

TWENTIES

1933 21 Years Old On January 21, 1933, she married Admiral John S. McCain, Jr. in Caesar's Bar, Tijuana, Mexico. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

1973 61 Years Old Her son, John, was held as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half years. When notified upon his release on March 15, 1973, that he had shouted expletives at his captors, Mrs. McCain's response was, "Johnny, I'm going to come over there and wash your mouth out with soap." … Read More

2008 96 Years Old McCain campaigned during her son's 2008 presidential campaign, and remains active despite her advanced age.

2009 97 Years Old On October 22, 2009, she was hospitalized in Portugal after she fell and injured her head.

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