Cindy McCain

Cindy Hensley McCain, born Cindy Lou Hensley ( born May 20, 1954) is Chairman of the Company Hensley & Company and the wife of U.S. Senator John McCain.

Biography

McCain grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, on. She is the only child of James Willis Hensley (1920-2000) and his second wife Marguerite Smith Johnson (1919-2006), which the company Hensley & Company, founded in 1955. McCain attended Madison Meadows Elementary and was in the 1968 Queen Rodeo. Thereafter, she attended the Central High School in Phoenix, where she graduated in 1972. She received her Masters from the University of Southern California in special education.

In 1979 she met John McCain know in Hawaii, who was still married at the time. They fell in love and John McCain divorced his first wife and married on 17 May 1980 in Phoenix Cindy Lou Hensley. Through this marriage, and the influence of her father, her husband John McCain was admitted into the local politics of Arizona. McCain became a mother of three children. The family lived in Arizona.

In 1988, McCain's organization American Voluntary Medical Team ( AVMT ). In 1995 she started another organization Hensley Family Foundation, which supports children's programs in Arizona. In 2000, she supported her husband in his presidential bid, in which the latter was defeated by the Republican competitor George W. Bush. In the same year her father died and she became chairman of the company Hensley & Company. Furthermore, it is represented on the board of the organization CARE since 2005 and the board of the organization HALO Trust. In April 2004, she suffered a stroke due to high blood pressure, recovered in the following months but all in therapy. In the presidential candidacy of her husband 2007/2008, she was active and publicly declared, among other things, that the Bush administration had deployed too few troops in the Iraq war.