McCain will speak at Kings Point commencement
U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will deliver the keynote address at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point's Class of 2007 commencement on June 18.
McCain serves on the Senate Committee on the Armed Services, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. He is seeking the Republican presidential nomination in the 2008 election. He ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for president in 2000.
McCain graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis in 1958 and was shot down over Vietnam in October 1967. He was finally released from captivity in 1973, and in 1976 became the U.S. Navy’s liaison officer to the U.S. Senate.
Elected in 1982 to the U.S. House of Representatives from the state of Arizona, he was first elected to the Senate in 1986 and is in his fourth term.
McCain will speak at Kings Point commencement
