Senator John McCain dies at the age of 81 after suffering from brain cancer

Republican Sen. John McCain of Sydney died on Sunday after his brain cancer battles for more than a year.

During three decades of Arizona representation in the Senate, he ran twice in vain for the president. He lost a bitter first campaign to George W. Bush and the Republican institution in 2000. He then returned to the nomination in 2008, but was defeated in the general election by Barack Obama, an Illinois Democrat with a charisma who served less than one term as a senator.

The man who seemed to himself authentic when angry, Senator McCain had the credit to rise against orthodoxy. The word "dissident" has practically become part of his name.

Probably the most famous prisoner of war in America, the former Navy pilot with Amir Amir Shahir's father was shot down on Vietnam and spent 5 1/2 years as a prison in the north, most of the time in a mockery named Hanoi Hilton for the way the prisoners were treated.

McCain was tortured by his captors, a case he would have said 40 years ago as a US senator during the Iraq war in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. McCain even voted against President Trump's candidate to become director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Gina Haskell, for her role in detention centers abroad.

A six-year senator was born on August 29, 1936, in Panama - a US protectorate at the time. He attended the US Naval Academy from 1954 until 1958, training as a pilot.

During the Vietnam War, a McCain plane was dropped over Hanoi during a bombing mission and was held by the North Vietnamese as a prisoner of war for more than five and a half years until 1973.

Both his arms and man were broken in the accident. When McCain was offered the chance of early release, McCain refused to be deported to other US detainees held longer, in adhering to the Code of Conduct for Prisoners of War.

He suffered lifelong disabilities throughout the war, returned from the Navy in 1981 and moved to Arizona. Shortly after entering politics in 1982, McCain was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he held two positions before setting eyes on the US Senate, which he joined in 1987 and won five reelections easily. 2016).

McCain was nominated for president for the first time in 2000, and launched a campaign of rebellion against Texas Governor George W. Bush for the Republican nomination. But ended his candidacy after suffering major defeats in the primary elections.

In 2008, he made a second attempt at the White House, this time as his party's candidate. Eventually lost to Barack Obama, then the youngest Democratic senator from Illinois.

"We are all in his religion," Obama said in honor of McCain on Sunday.

"We have shared, despite all our differences, the devotion to something higher - the ideals for which generations of Americans and immigrants alike fought, walked and sacrificed."

Throughout his career, McCain gained a reputation as a dissident who put his country ahead of politics.

McCain was known for his strong Republican voice. He was also known as a politician who was not afraid to vote in principle, rather than relying on partisan lines. In 2017, shortly after the diagnosis of his brain, McCain returned to Washington, DC, where he made a decisive vote against Republican-led efforts to abolish the Affordable Care Act - one of Obama's achievements in politics.

The Arizona senator was also one of President Donald Trump's most vocal critics, warning of the president's clear admiration for his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and other authoritarian leaders in his latest book The Quiet Wave.

After Trump's meeting with Putin in July - in which he accepted the Russian president's refusal to intervene in the 2016 US presidential election - McCain issued a warm statement describing the incident as "one of the most outrageous offers by a US president in memory."

Trump, who in the past mocked McCain, said he had sent "his deep sympathy and respect."

McCain survived his wife Cindy McCain and his seven children: John, Andy and Sydney McCain, from his first marriage to Carol McCain. As well as Megan, Jack, Jimmy and Pride McCain from his