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Politician John McCain has an estimated net worth of $21 million. John McCain has been a U.S. senator from Arizona since 1987, and was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. A 1958 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, McCain had a 22-year military career as a pilot and officer in the Navy. Five of those years (1967-73) were spent in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp after he was shot down over Hanoi during the Vietnam War. McCain left the Navy in 1981, was elected to Congress in 1982, and then was elected as U.S. senator from Arizona in 1986.
In 2000 he ran for the Republican presidential nomination, but was defeated by George W. Bush. After Bush was reelected in 2004, McCain ran again for the Republican nomination in 2008, this time winning the nomination at the GOP convention. He named Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, but they were defeated by Democratic candidates Barack Obama and Joe Biden. McCain's 1999 book Faith of My Fathers told the story of his family's military history and his own experiences as a POW.John McCain was born on a naval base in Panama and has an estimated net worth of $21 million dollars. John McCain was the Republican Party presidential nominee in 2008 and is the current US Senator from Arizona. He is a retired Navy Captain and was a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam from 1967 to 1973.
Earnings & Financial Data
|
Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2007 |
Asset |
The value of the two-storey cabin owned by McCain |
$1,800,000 |
|
2007 |
Asset |
Value of the condo owned by the McCain couple in Arlington Va |
$848,000 |
|
2006 |
Sale of Asset |
Amount earned from the sale of his five properties |
$11,000,000 |
|
2006 |
Book Sales |
Earnings from book sales which were only donated to charity |
$1,700,000 |
|
2006 |
Salary |
Annual salary as senator |
$165,000 |
|
2006 |
Sale of Asset |
Amount earned from the sale of McCain's house in Phoenix |
$3,200,000 |
|
2006 |
Misc. |
Annual navy pension received |
$54,000 |
|
2005 |
Royalties |
Annual royalties earned |
$25,000 |
|
1986 |
Others |
Between 1982 and 1987, John McCain has received a total of $112k in political contributions from Charles Keating Jr. and his associates at Lincoln Savings and Loan Association |
$112,000 |
|
1981 |
Salary |
Salary received from working for Hensley |
$25,000 |
|
1981 |
Bonus |
Bonus received from working for Hensley |
$25,000 |
|
1981 |
Misc. |
Pension received annually from Navy |
$11,000 |