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Also known as Cindy Lou Hensley McCain, Cindy Lou McCain, Cindy Hensley, Cindy Lou Hensley, Cindy Hensley McCain

community organizer

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Within Vinony's link graph, Cindy McCain is referenced by 235 other articles, and connects out to World Food Programme, White House and United States Senate.

It is catalogued under topics including 1954 births, 20th-century American businesspeople and 20th-century American businesswomen.

Its subject is documented across 29 Wikipedia language editions.

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

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
CA
Active from
1970-01-20

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
40
Total plays
45

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Cindy+McCain">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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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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Commons category
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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cindy McCain” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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