Memorials for Lindsey Graham scheduled for South Carolina, D.C.
Memorial services for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham will be held in South Carolina and the District at the end of this month.
The “life and legacy” of the South Carolina Republican will be celebrated in Washington on July 28, and two more services will be held the next day in Columbia and Pickens County, South Carolina, Communications Director Taylor Reidy announced Friday.
Mr. Graham, 71, died Saturday night after emergency workers were dispatched to his Capitol Hill home. The D.C. Medical Examiner’s Office issued a preliminary finding of “aortic dissection due to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.”
“The death certificate will be PENDING until all the toxicological and microscopic testing are finalized and at that point the death certificate will be updated to reflect the cause of death and appropriately classify the manner of death,” the office said in a Sunday statement.
In the week following the longtime lawmaker’s death, Congress commemorated his tenure in office.
Mr. Graham’s desk on the floor of the Senate was adorned with a black cloth and a vase of white roses, as was his place on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s dais during the confirmation hearing of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
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Darline Graham Nordone was sworn in to succeed her older brother on Tuesday, marking a milestone as the first woman to represent South Carolina in the Senate.
A bipartisan chorus of senators is calling for the passage of a long-stalled Russia sanctions bill championed by their late colleague.
After returning from a trip to Ukraine, Mr. Graham announced that the White House agreed to support his bill to sanction purchasers of Russian oil, an attempt to cut off a key source of funding for Russia’s war against Ukraine.
“I’m going to channel my inner Lindsey Graham and say, ‘This is a big effing deal,’” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Democrat, said Tuesday when detailing his and Mr. Graham’s bipartisan bill.
