{"id":2874,"date":"2026-07-12T13:09:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2026-07-12T13:09:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:09:54","slug":"south-carolinas-senator-lindsay-graham-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=2874","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina\u2019s Senator Lindsay Graham has died"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senator Lindsay Graham\u2019s office announced that the Senator passed away last night after a brief illness. He was 71. During his long political career, Graham spent many years living in John McCain\u2019s shadow. However, after McCain passed away and thanks to the Kavanaugh hearings, Graham found his mojo, becoming a stalwart defender of Donald Trump\u2019s policies and a very good friend to Israel.<\/p>

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The bare-bones facts of Graham\u2019s life are a matter of public record. He was born on July 9, 1955 (so he died just two days after his 71st birthday), into a poor family in the small town of Central, South Carolina. When Graham was still in college, both his parents passed away, so he assumed legal guardianship of his 13-year-old sister, a heavy responsibility for such a young man.<\/p>\n

Graham completed college, got his law degree, and served in the Air Force as a Judge Advocate General. He remained in the Air Force reserves for decades, including volunteering to deploy to both Iraq and Afghanistan. He retired in 2015 with the rank of colonel.<\/p>\n

After leaving active duty, Graham then worked as a lawyer both in private practice and as a government employee in Central. He began his political career in 1992 as a member of South Carolina\u2019s House of Representatives. By 1995, he\u2019d moved onto the U.S. House of Representatives before entering the Senate in 2003. He was a sitting member of the Senate when he died.<\/p>\n

Graham never married. Foes intimated that he was homosexual, although Graham claimed to have had girlfriends in law school and later while serving in Germany. Ultimately, he said he never met the right person. There is no record of any romantic liaisons while he was in office, and his personal life was without scandal.<\/p>\n

Graham died last night when EMT\u2019s were called to his home because he was suffering from chest pain, so it sounds as if his heart took him in the end.<\/p>\n

Politically, Graham was interesting. While in the Senate, he was a John McCain acolyte, politically following where John McCain led. He really was what now passes for a centrist conservative, a breed that has no place in America\u2019s polarized politics. (Wikipedia accurately lists his political positions over the years, but does so with remarkable and highly non-objective venom.) A true establishment type, he was hostile to the Tea Party and (thanks to McCain) to President Trump.<\/p>\n

However, two things happened in 2018. First, McCain died. And second, Graham sat through the ludicrous Kavanaugh nomination hearings. That was when Christine Blowsy-Fraud offered her hazy, uncorroborated memories of Brett Kavanaugh having sexually assaulted her\u2014a claim utterly destroyed by strong contemporaneous evidence.<\/p>\n

Somehow, perhaps because he\u2019d been a trial lawyer, Graham suddenly understood that the Democrats were no longer moderates nor could they be dealt with in good faith. Lindsay Graham 2.0 was born:<\/p>\n