Spouse: Carol Shepp

Occupation: Model
Married: July 3, 1965 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  
Divorced: April 2, 1980  
 
John McCain and Carol Shepp met in 1964 while he was at the United States Naval
Academy in Annapolis. Carol Shepp had been married to and was divorced from one
of McCains classmates at the academy and had two children.  John McCain adopted
her two sons soon after the wedding and daughter Sidney was born in 1966. A year
later, McCain was sent to Vietnam as a bomber pilot on an aircraft carrier, was
captured and became a POW.  Carol would not see him again for almost six years.

On Christmas Eve 1969 Carol Shepp McCain was in an automobile accident and
thrown through her car's windshield sustaining serious injuries.  Despite her
condition and caring for three young children, she refused to allow her POW
husband to be notified, fearing that the news would affect him while he was
still being held prisoner. When McCain returned home in 1973, he found that his
wife was a different person. The accident had "left her 4 inches shorter and on
crutches, and she had gained a good deal of weight."

Spouse: Cindy Hensley McCain;

• Children: Sydney McCain, Doug Shepp, Andy Shepp, Meghan McCain, John
Sidney McCain IV, James McCain, Bridget McCain