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John McCain

PEP · Politician · Close Associate · Counter-sanctioned entity

John McCain is subject to counter-sanctions. Counter-sanctions are designations imposed by countries with weak democratic institutions. They are often punitive responses to foreign sanctions, or can be used to suppress domestic political opposition. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Con Makkeyn · Džons Makeins · John McCain · John Sidney McCain III · Τζον Μακέιν · 16 more...				[sources]
Alias	Con Makkeyn · Džons Makeins · Ioannes McCain · John Mc Cain · John S. McCain · 45 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	ماكين · ম্যাককেইন				[sources]
Birth date	1936-08-29				[sources]
Place of birth	Coco Solo				[sources]
Death date	2018-08-25				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	John · Sidney				[sources]
Last name	McCain				[sources]
Political association	Republican Party				[sources]
Website	www.johnmccain.com · facebook.com · twitter.com · www.johnmccain.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q10390				[sources]
Position	Senate (member, 2005-2007) · Senate (member, 2007-2009) · Senate (member, 2009-2011) · Senate (member, 2011-2013) · Senate (member, 2013-2015) · 23 more...				[sources]
Education	Episcopal High School (1951-1954) · National War College (1973-1974) · St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School · United States Naval Academy (-1958) · primary education				[sources]
Religion	Baptists · Protestantism · Southern Baptist Convention				[sources]
Last change	2026-03-16	Last processed	2026-03-24	First seen	2024-09-05

Descriptions

American politician (1936–2018)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2026-01-11

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Russia	Министерство иностранных дел Российской Федерации		-	-

Associations
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Gary Abernathy PEP	political adviser · significant person	-	-

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Sidney McCain Close Associate	child	-	-
Bridget McCain Close Associate	child	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States senator	2009-01-06	-
United States senator	2005-01-06	2007-01-03

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,554

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Russia Personal Sanctions Targeting US Citizens2,163

A list of US citizens under personal sanctions by the Russian Federation.

Russia · MFA

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata328,065

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions500,348

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: ru-mfa-5997ba6c031c6431363ca2d3ec06ecaa018961f5 · evpo-96324d91-c6e4-401a-b43e-a526dabe40a8

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Cindy McCain PEP	spouse	1980-05-17	2018-08-25
Carol McCain PEP	spouse	1965-07-03	1980-04-02