Cindy Lou Hensley McCain is the wife of U.S. Senator and 2000 and 2008 presidential candidate John McCain of Arizona.
Cindy McCain is chair of Hensley & Company, one of the largest Anheuser-Busch distributors in the nation. She founded and ran the American Voluntary Medical Team from 1988-1995, which organized trips for medical personnel to provide emergency care to disaster-struck or war-torn third-world areas.
Hensley received a degree in education and a masters in special education from the University of Southern California. Declining a role in the family business, Cindy began a special education teaching career working with disabled children at Agua Fria High School in Avondale, Ariz.
Cindy and John McCain met in 1979 at a military reception in Hawaii. He was the U.S. Navy liaison officer to the U.S. Senate, 18 years her senior and in a troubled marriage to his first wife, Carol. McCain divorced Carol in April 1980, and married Cindy in May 1980.
Cindy's father's business and political contacts are credited with helping McCain gain a foothold into Arizona politics. John McCain was first elected to the U.S. House in 1982.
After several miscarriages, Cindy Hensley McCain gave birth to two sons and a daughter: Meghan (born 1984), John Sidney IV (known as "Jack," born 1986), and James (born 1988). The McCains adopted a fourth child, who they named Bridget, from Bangladesh in 1991.
The wife of John McCain continues to be an active philanthropist and serves on boards of several charitable organizations.
THE MARATHON
Barack Obama: 1,962
Hillary Clinton: 1,777
************
Magic Number: 2,025
************
NOTE: Above figures include superdelegates, which are estimates and subject to change
THE NOMINEE
John McCain: 1,500
************
Magic Number: 1,191
************
