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(CNN) — Here is the life story of South Carolina-born US Senator and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham.
Personal
date of birth: July 9, 1955
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, J.D., 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
other facts
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.
told reporters in March 2015. He never sent an email.
was a close friend of the deceased Senator John McCain from Arizona.
Timeline
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.
2013- cooperate with A bipartisan immigration reform bill. measures passed by the Senate but it doesn’t work through the house.
June 1, 2015 – announce that he is Runs for president during an event in Central, South Carolina.
June 7, 2015 – Graham said in an interview CNN’s Dana Bash said welcome caitlyn jenner As a political ally, I sue a more inclusive Republican Party.
December 21, 2015 – announce that he is Suspend his presidential campaign.
May 6, 2016 – he announces that he will not vote for either donald trump again Hillary Clinton president in the general election.
October 2018 – Trump told CNN that “there are a few possibilities” Graham wants to see Trump succeed and enjoys the ability to stay on the president’s side and influence him.
From January 10, 2019 to February 3, 2021 Graham is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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.”
November 3, 2020 – win re-election as a U.S. Senatordefeated high-profile Democratic challenger Jamie Harrison. raise huge sums of money.
January 6, 2021 – Graham defends authorization of electoral college votes on Senate floor after Capitol riotto vote against the results is “a very bad idea to delay this election. All I can say is, get rid of me, enough is enough.” During the second impeachment trial, he served as an unofficial adviser to the Trump team and returned to Trump’s support. Visit Mar-a-Lago.
August 2, 2021 – Graham announces he has tested positive for COVID-19apart from vaccinated. “I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be as good as I am now without the vaccine,” he tweeted.
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.
March 23, 2023 – Senate Ethics Committee Reprimands Graham Charged with soliciting campaign funds five times in violation of Senate rules during media interviews in the Oval Office of the Capitol.
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