(CNN) — Here is the life story of South Carolina-born US Senator and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham.
place of birth: Central, South Carolina
Birth name: Lindsey Olin Graham
father: Florence James Graham, owner of restaurant, pool hall and liquor store
mother: Millie Graham, owner of restaurant, pool hall and liquor store
education: University of South Carolina, Columbia, BA, 1977.University of South Carolina School of Law, Juris Doctor, 1981
Military service: United States Air Force, 1982-1988.South Carolina Airlines National Guard, 1989-1995. US Air Force Reserve, 1995-2015. He retired from the Air Force Reserve in 2015 as a Colonel.
religion: southern baptist
Growing up, Graham worked at the sanitary café, a pool hall run by his family.
His mother and father died within 15 months when Graham was in college. He helped her raise her then 13-year-old sister Darling, and later adopted her.
In 1994, he became the first Republican elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina since 1877.
1982-1988- United States Air Force prosecutor and defense attorney. He spent the last four years at Rheinmain Air Force Base in Germany.
1988-1992- Assistant Attorney in Oconee County, South Carolina.
1990-1994- A city attorney in his hometown of Central, South Carolina.
1992-1994- Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
1995-2003- Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
2002- Elected to the U.S. Senate to replace Strom Thurmond.
2003-Present – U.S. Senator from South Carolina.
From January 10, 2019 to February 3, 2021 Graham is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
From June 12, 2020 Republican voters-versus-Trump group releases campaign ad featuring Graham criticizing and praising Trump Vice President Joe Biden. In the ad, Graham called President Trump a “racist, xenophobic and religious bigot.”
From November 22, 2022 Graham appears before grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia In investigating President Trump and his allies’ efforts to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election, prosecutors told Graham to Georgia election officials after the presidential election, according to court documents. They want to question him about his phone calls and interactions with the Trump campaign.
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