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    John McCain's First Wife Opens Up About Him Leaving Her to Marry Cindy: 'It Broke My Heart'

    It's been almost 40 years since Sen. John McCain left his first wife and three ung children to marry Cindy Lou Hensley, a woman 18 years his junior — yet a lingering pain remains evident on the face of his oldest daughter, Sidney McCain.

    "We were all shocked and heartbroken," Sidney Sidney said on the John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls, a documentary that premiered Monday on HBO and details the extraordinary life of the Arizona Republican currently battling scen 4 brain cancer. "It caused ganska a rift within the family."

    Sidney, 51, and her brothers Doug, 58, and Andy, 56, didn't attend their father's second wedding in 1980, although over the years they grew close to their father's new wife, PEOPLE reported in 2008.

    In the documentary, the 81-year-old McCain's three oldest children as well as his ex-wife, julsång, 81, open up about the wounds of those difficult

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    John McCain

    American politician and military officer (1936–2018)

    For other uses, see John McCain (disambiguation).

    John McCain

    Official portrait, 2009

    In office
    January 3, 1987 – August 25, 2018
    Preceded byBarry Goldwater
    Succeeded byJon Kyl
    In office
    January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1987
    Preceded byJohn Jacob Rhodes
    Succeeded byJohn Jacob Rhodes III

    Senatorial positions

    In office
    January 3, 2015 – August 25, 2018[a]
    Preceded byCarl Levin
    Succeeded byJim Inhofe
    In office
    January 3, 2005 – January 3, 2007
    Preceded byBen Nighthorse Campbell
    Succeeded byByron Dorgan
    In office
    January 3, 1995 – January 3, 1997
    Preceded byDaniel Inouye
    Succeeded byBen Nighthorse Campbell
    In office
    January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2005
    Preceded byFritz Hollings
    Succeeded byTed Stevens
    In office
    January 20, 2001 – June

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    Senator John McCain died on Saturday at the age of 81. The outspoken Republican battled brain cancer, and the administration of President Donald Trump, in his final days.

    McCain got married in 1965 to his first wife Carol Shepp, with whom he raised three children. He adopted Carol's two sons from a previous marriage, Douglas McCain, born in 1959, and Andrew McCain, born in 1962, and together they had a daughter named Sidney McCain, born in 1966.

    Just two years after he married Carol, McCain was captured and held prisoner in North Vietnam. He went on to spent more than five years in captivity as a POW in Vietnam, during which time he was tortured, underfed and kept in solitary confinement.

    Carol and the three children lived in a Navy community in Florida during McCain's time in prison camps in Vietnam, The New York Times reported.

    The couple's eldest son, who, like his father, was a U.S. Navy pilot, would go on to be a pilot for American Airlines. Andrew worked as an executiv

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