John Sidney McCain III was an American politician and naval officer born in 1936 in Panama. He represented Arizona in the United States Congress for more than 35 years, serving first as a U.S. representative from 1983 to 1987, then as a U.S. senator from 1987 until his death in 2018. A member of the Republican Party, McCain was his party's nominee in the 2008 presidential election. He died in August 2018 in Arizona.