Cindy McCain
Also known as Cindy Lou Hensley McCain, Cindy Lou McCain, Cindy Hensley, Cindy Lou Hensley, Cindy Hensley McCain
community organizer
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- 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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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.
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- 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
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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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