Premise: John Herschel Glenn Jr. ( July 18 , 1921 -- December 8 , 2016 ) was a United States Marine Corps aviator , engineer , astronaut , and United States Senator from Ohio . In 1962 he was the first American to orbit the Earth , circling it three times . He was one of the Mercury Seven , military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA as the United States ' first astronauts .
Hypothesis: John Glenn is identified as an American.
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