{"id":4971,"date":"2026-07-13T11:12:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=4971"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:12:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:12:57","slug":"south-carolina-senator-lindsey-graham-dead-at-age-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=4971","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham Dead at Age 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap body dropcap\">Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/topic\/lindsey-graham\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\">Lindsey Graham<\/a>, a Republican stalwart from South Carolina, has died, following a \u201cbrief and sudden illness,\u201d his office said in a statement sent early Sunday. He was 71.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, which was posted to Graham&#8217;s <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\/status\/2076185414721847673\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\/status\/2076185414721847673&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\/status\/2076185414721847673\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social media accounts<\/a>, \u201cOn the evening of Saturday July 11, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham passed away from a brief and sudden illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cSenator Graham&#8217;s family appreciates prayers at this time and asks for privacy during this incredibly difficult period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">According to a second statement released by Graham&#8217;s office Sunday afternoon, preliminary findings by the Medical Examiner of the District of Columbia determined that he died of aortic dissection due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease\u2014in other words, a rupture of the body&#8217;s main blood vessel caused by a hardening of the arteries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Donald Trump responded to his death early Sunday, writing on <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116905798341654664\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116905798341654664&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116905798341654664\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Truth Social<\/a>, \u201cSenator Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known, is dead! He was always working, and was a true American Patriot. Lindsey will be greatly missed!!! DETAILS AND ARRANGEMENTS TO FOLLOW. So sad!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In a statement also posted to <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LeaderJohnThune\/status\/2076204028053045750\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/LeaderJohnThune\/status\/2076204028053045750&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LeaderJohnThune\/status\/2076204028053045750\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social media<\/a>, Senate Majority Leader John Thune wrote \u201cMy heart is heavy this morning to learn of the passing of my friend and colleague, Senator Lindsey Graham.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cHe was a strong advocate for the United States and a strong ally to freedom-loving countries across the globe,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;He believed in the might of America to achieve good in the world and dedicated his life to advancing that cause\u2026His influence on the federal judiciary, our national defense, and his beloved South Carolina will be felt for generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster is expected to name a temporary appointee to fill Graham&#8217;s Senate seat. An election for a full-term replacement would, according to South Carolina law, be held in November 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Lindsey Olin Graham was born in Central, South Carolina, on July 9, 1955. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2015\/06\/lindsey-graham-memoir-my-story\" class=\"text link\">his 2015 memoir<\/a>, <em>My Story<\/em>, he wrote that as a youth he worked in his family&#8217;s pool hall, a segregated bar called the Sanitary Cafe. He called the childhood job \u201ca great way to grow up,&#8221; but noted that its racial integration, which did not occur until the 1970s, was \u201cmuch later than it should have [been].\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The first member of his family to attend college, as a 21-year-old, he took legal guardianship of his then-13-year-old sister after both of his parents died. As a lifelong bachelor with no children, that sister, Darline Graham Nordone, remains his closest living relative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican stalwart from South Carolina, has died, following a \u201cbrief and sudden illness,\u201d his office said in a statement sent early Sunday. He was 71. According to the statement, which was posted to Graham&#8217;s social media accounts, \u201cOn the evening of Saturday July 11, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham passed away from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/6a5378df01047819763e86aa\/16:9\/w_1280,c_limit\/2273443703","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-gossip"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}