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Cindy McCain
Sign in to saveAlso known as Cindy Lou Hensley McCain, Cindy Lou McCain, Cindy Hensley, Cindy Lou Hensley, Cindy Hensley McCain
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Cindy McCain, born Cindy Lou Hensley in Phoenix on 20 May 1954, is an American teacher, entrepreneur, businessperson and politician. She was educated at the University of Southern California and is a member of the Republican Party. She has held the position of chairperson and practises the Congregational church tradition.
McCain is the spouse of John McCain and the parent of Meghan McCain, and has lived in Phoenix and Alexandria.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Dream of Falling
- Field guide to the forested plant associations of the northern Oregon Coast Range
- Field guide to the forested plant associations of the westside central Cascades of northwest Oregon
- Manual conifer release
- Riparian plant communities of northwest Oregon
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Film & TV
Acting · Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Cindy McCain was born on May 20, 1954, in Phoenix, Arizona, USA as Cindy Lou Hensley. She is a producer, known for The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain, John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls (2018) and I am Jane Doe (2017). She was previously married to John McCain.
Known for
- Centered: Joe Lieberman — Self2025
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg2022
- VOMO: Vote or Miss Out — Self2020
- Firing Line with Margaret Hoover — Self2018
- Chelsea — Self2016
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self2015
- Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest2014
- The Jay Leno Show — Self2009
- The View — Self - Guest1997
- The View — Self - Guest Co-Host1997
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 40
- Total plays
- 45
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,260x
- Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach
· 2018 · cited 9,149x
- AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models
· 2021 · cited 7,865x
- The american college of rheumatology 1990 criteria for the classification of fibromyalgia
· 1990 · cited 6,705x
- Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process.
· 1987 · cited 6,568x
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Key facts
- Secretary general
- António Guterres
- Preceded by
- David Beasley
- President
- Joe Biden
- Succeeded by
- Jeffrey Prescott
- Born
- Cindy Lou Hensley , ( 1954-05-20 ) May 20, 1954 (age 72) , Phoenix, Arizona , U.S.
- Party
- Republican
- Spouse
- John McCain ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. May 17, 1980</span>"}]]}'>1980 ; died August 25, 2018</span>"}]]}'>2018 )
- Children
- 4, including Meghan
- Relatives
- McCain family (by marriage), Jim Hensley (father)
- Education
- University of Southern California ( BA , MA )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Cindy
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Phoenix
- Spouse
- John McCain
- Occupation
- politician
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Religion
- Congregational churches
- Image
- Cindy McCain, U.S. Ambassador.jpg
- Residence
- Alexandria
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- Cindy McCain
- date of birth
- 1954-05-20
- birth name
- Cindy Lou Hensley
- name in native language
- Cindy McCain
- social media followers
- 263694
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Encyclopedic overview
Cindy Lou McCain (née Hensley; born May 20, 1954) is an American diplomat, businesswoman, and humanitarian who is the executive director of the World Food Programme. McCain previously served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture from 2021 to 2023. She is the widow of U.S. Senator John McCain from Arizona, who was the 2008 Republican presidential nominee.
McCain was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and is a daughter of wealthy beer distributor Jim Hensley. After receiving bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Southern California, she became a special education teacher. She married John McCain in 1980. The couple moved to Arizona in 1981, and John McCain was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives the following year. The couple had three children together, in addition to adopting another. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992 and reelected several more times. From 1988 to 1995, Cindy McCain operated a nonprofit organization, the American Voluntary Medical Team, which organized trips by medical personnel to disaster-stricken or war-torn third-world areas.
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