In this Nov. 3, 2008, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks at a rally in Tampa, Fla. Aide says senator, war hero and GOP presidential candidate McCain died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018. He was 81. (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press)
A military veteran pays his respects at the entrance to the McCain ranch complex Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018, in Cornville, Ariz. (Ross D. Franklin / Associated Press)
FILE - In this March 14, 1973, file photo, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. John McCain, center, is escorted by Lt. Cmdr. Jay Coupe Jr., to Hanoi’s Gia Lam Airport, after McCain was released from captivity. An aide says that McCain died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018. He was 81. (Horst Faas / Associated Press)
In this Nov. 3, 2008 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks during a rally in Henderson, Nev. (Isaac Brekken / Associated Press)
Sen. John McCain R-Ariz., hugs Debbie Landry from New Orleans near the break of the 17th Street canal levee in the Lakeview area of New Orleans on Friday, March 10, 2006. The senator toured the area damaged by Hurricane Katrina at the invitation of the activist group, Women of the Storm. Landry and her family lost a total of nine homes. (ALEX BRANDON / Associated Press)
Near the portraits, from right, of John S. McCain, John S. McCain, Jr. and John S. McCain III, Navy Secretary Richard Spencer and his wife Polly Spencer disembark from the USS John S. McCain after a rededication ceremony at the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, Thursday, July 12, 2018. Spencer dedicated one of two destroyers involved in fatal accidents in the Pacific last year to Sen. John McCain. (Eugene Hoshiko / Associated Press)
In this Dec. 1, 2017 file photo, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., leaves a closed-door session on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)
Senator John McCain makes a point on the stage at Gonzaga University, Feb. 23, 2000. Seated behind him is Spokane County Commissioner Phil Harris who introduced the presidential candidate. (File / sr)
Whitworth student Ben Robinson, right, waits to shake hands with conservative Republican presidential candidate John McCain during his Wednesday visit to Spokane in 2000.
John Sidney McCain III, the maverick Republican who twice sought the presidency and served in the Senate for more than three decades after surviving brutal captivity during the Vietnam War, died Saturday after battling brain cancer. He was 81.
Sen. John McCain, who faced down his captors in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp with jut-jawed defiance and later turned his rebellious streak into a 35-year political career that took him to Congress and the Republican presidential nomination, died Saturday after battling brain cancer for more than a year. He was 81.