Born on March 8 in the year 1952, son of a former NFL Head coach George Allen, George Felix Allen is a United States Senator and a republican from Virginia, a commonwealth state. A graduate from Palos Verdes High School and a quarterback of the varsity football team, George Felix Allen attended University of California for a year and then migrated to University of Virginia for rest of his studies.

On November 5, 1991, he was elected as one of the senators in the US House of Representatives for Virginia 7th district. Allen’s career in the House of Representatives was for a very short span of time. Being a lawyer, Allen worked in the state legislature of Virginia as a governor. He also served US Congress. In a re-election in the year 2006 he lost to Jim Webb. Allen is currently working under Reagan Ranch Board of Governors of Young America’s foundation. He is Reagan Ranch Presidential scholar there serving the board very efficiently.

Allen has seen various ups and downs in his ever growing political career. In 1993 he was elected 67th governor of Virginia and served the state till 1998. Allen is not eligible now for a re-election since Virginia doesn’t allow a governor to succeed himself.

Who is John McCain? He is a senior US Senator from Arizona and the Republican candidate in the 2008 election for the President of the United States.

John McCain is a third generation Navy man.  He is a 1958 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. He flew attack aircrafts as a naval aviator. On a bombing mission is 1967, his plane was shot down. Not only was McCain badly injured, the North Vietnamese captured him. John McCain was a prisoner of war for five and a half years in which he endured torture. He was freed in 1973.

McCain announced that he planned to run for President of the United States of America on the February 28, 2007, episode of Late Night with David Letterman. This is not John McCain’s first try at the presidency. George W. Bush defeated him for the Republican nomination for president in 2000. McCain received enough delegates on March 4, 2008 to confirm him as the presumptive Republican nominee for the presidential race of 2008.

If John McCain wins the election, he would be the oldest US president at the time of inauguration. On January 20, 2009, John Sidney McCain III will be 72-years-old.