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Lindsey Graham, the garrulous son of South Carolina pool hall owners, rose to become a fixture on the global stage and one of the most prominent advocates of American military might in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n

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A former military lawyer who reached the rank of colonel in the Air Force, the wisecracking Graham was known for his Southern drawl, political flexibility and reliably hawkish stance on foreign policy. He ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 as a determined opponent of Donald Trump, then became one of the new president\u2019s staunchest allies.<\/p>\n

In his typical high-energy manner, Graham had just returned to Washington from a trip to Ukraine, having announced a deal with the Trump administration for a new package of sanctions against Russia. He was due to appear on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d on Sunday to discuss it. Trump appeared in the senator\u2019s place.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just can\u2019t believe it,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe was like a member of the family.\u201d <\/p>\n

Graham died Saturday night after what a preliminary report from the Washington, D.C., medical examiner\u2019s office said was a tear in his aorta stemming from the hardening of his arteries. He was 71.<\/p>\n

His death brought encomiums from world leaders and, closer to home, Republicans and Democrats alike, a mark of his influence and his ability to befriend colleagues of different political persuasions. In an outpouring of tributes, lawmakers expressed their shock and remembered his good humor, kindness and zest for the political arena. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe is the quintessential boy makes good story,\u201d said Bob McAlister, a communications consultant who long worked with Graham. \u201cI don\u2019t know of anybody who, or know very few people who, started out with less and gained as much from life as he did. I guess that may be my epitaph for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Graham transformed from Trump critic to ally<\/h3>\n

Graham was part of the \u201cNever Trump\u201d movement during his 2016 run and feuded heatedly with his reality television star rival during the campaign. He was especially upset at Trump for \u201cslandering\u201d his close friend and political brother-in-arms, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. \u201cYou know, run for president, but don\u2019t be the world\u2019s biggest jackass,\u201d Graham said.<\/p>\n

In response, Trump announced Graham\u2019s cellphone number during a campaign rally, leading Graham to muse about whether he should get an Android or iPhone to replace it. <\/p>\n

By coming around to Trump, particularly in the years after McCain\u2019s death in 2018, Graham amassed influence as an intermediary to the White House. Graham and Trump enjoyed a close relationship and became frequent golfing partners, though their relationship ruptured for a time after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.<\/p>\n

Still, a year later, Graham was urging Republicans to rally behind Trump again rather than side with critics calling for his political exile. <\/p>\n

\u201cCan I just say to my Republican colleagues \u2014 can we move forward without President Trump?\u201d Graham said on Fox News in 2022. \u201cThe answer is no,\u201d he said, adding \u201cwe can\u2019t grow without him.\u201d<\/p>\n

His journey from the pool hall to Congress<\/h3>\n

Graham was born to Millie and Florence James Graham of Central, South Carolina on July 19, 1955. The couple owned a restaurant, bar and pool hall in the town. Graham, his parents and younger sister all lived in one room in the back of the building.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was one room, where we all slept, we all ate, we watched TV, the sofa, everything was in one room,\u201d his sister Darline recalled in 2015.<\/p>\n

As a child, Graham had free reign of the Sanitary Cafe, where he occasionally would sneak a swig of beer or a puff on a customer\u2019s cigarette, he wrote in an autobiography. The patrons, who would take him hunting and fishing as if he were their own son, called him \u201cStinkball.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a good life,\u201d Graham recalled to The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina. \u201cI could go grab a Coke any time I wanted to. In my world, I was as rich as I could be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like many institutions at the time, the Sanitary Cafe was segregated, Graham wrote. Black patrons had to take their alcohol to drink outside the establishment until the 1970s. But Graham said his father, known to all as \u201cDude,\u201d would not tolerate his white customers using slurs against Black people.<\/p>\n

Only a C student in high school, Graham still became the first member of his family to attend college at the University of South Carolina. While he was at college, his mother died of Hodgkin lymphoma. Months later, his father was diagnosed with prostate cancer and died of a heart attack as Graham started his first semester of law school. <\/p>\n

Graham, a lifelong bachelor who never had children, became the guardian for his younger sister after his parents\u2019 death, and later in life often extolled the benefits of Social Security that helped keep them financially afloat.<\/p>\n

After earning his law degree, Graham served as a judge advocate general in the Air Force, starting as a defense attorney for accused troops and eventually rising to the Air Force\u2019s chief prosecutor in Europe, based in Germany. He returned home in 1989 but remained a reserve or National Guard member for decades. <\/p>\n

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Even in the Senate, Graham briefly switched back to active status to help advise the Air Force during the Iraq War and was awarded the Bronze Star medal for service in 2014 before formally retiring as a colonel in 2015.<\/p>\n

Graham had a lead role in Bill Clinton\u2019s impeachment<\/h3>\n

Upon returning to South Carolina, Graham soon dove into politics. He won a statehouse seat in 1992 and then a U.S. House seat in 1994. He became one of a group of young, combative Republican lawmakers who pushed to oust then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich for cutting too many deals with the Democratic president, Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

Graham took on a prominent role in Clinton\u2019s impeachment for an affair with a White House intern. \u201cIs this Watergate or Peyton Place?\u201d Graham asked at one House hearing. After the GOP-controlled House impeached Clinton, Graham became one of the managers of the case in the Senate, which voted to acquit the Democrat.<\/p>\n

In 2002, when Strom Thurmond, South Carolina\u2019s senior senator, decided to retire at 99, Graham ran for his seat and won. He quickly took to the Senate and its emphasis on relationships, starting some mornings by eating alone in the stately Senate dining room, then throwing himself into the day\u2019s bubbling political fights.<\/p>\n

Vice President JD Vance recalled experiencing Graham\u2019s approach to politics up close when Vance was first elected to the Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember getting into a shouting match with Lindsey about a Ukraine funding bill at lunch and then learning the very next day that he was pushing rail legislation I really cared about behind the scenes,\u201d Vance said. \u201cThat was Lindsey Graham. He fought like hell for the things he believed in, and he was just as willing to go to bat for you when it counted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Graham had a gang of \u2018Three Amigos\u2019 in the Senate<\/h3>\n

Much of Graham\u2019s career was defined in large measure by his close relationship with McCain and Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat who later became an independent. Calling themselves \u201cThe Three Amigos,\u201d the senators traveled the world and pushed for U.S. intervention in several places, particularly the Middle East after the 9\/11 attacks. <\/p>\n

When McCain died in 2018, Graham broke down in tears on the Senate floor as he memorialized his friend.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe failed a lot, but he never quit,\u201d Graham said. \u201cAnd the reason we\u2019re talking about him today and the reason I\u2019m crying is because he was successful in spite of his failures.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the latter part his career Graham leaned on his legal background to take a key role in judicial appointments, especially to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2018, when Trump\u2019s nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, faced accusations of sexual misconduct, Graham helped turn the tide with an impassioned defense of the federal judge.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoy, y\u2019all want power. Boy, I hope you never get it,\u201d Graham said, accusing Democrats of setting up Kavanaugh and breaking trust in the nomination process. \u201cI hope the American people can see through this sham.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, Graham\u2019s partisan side was usually tamped down as he positioned himself as a dealmaker. Almost any bipartisan \u201cgang\u201d in the Senate always has had him as a member.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a fierce Republican partisan one day and a key bipartisan ally the next,\u201d recalled Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, who worked with him on immigration legislation. <\/p>\n

Kevin Bishop, who worked for Graham for 27 years and later ran for Congress himself, said the senator inspired fierce loyalty in his staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was incredibly fun to be around,\u201d Bishop said. People would walk into his office with \u201cpitchforks\u201d and Graham would turn them around, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was willing to accept a lot of criticism to move the ball forward,\u201d Bishop said. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Associated Press writers Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina, and Lisa Mascaro, Seung Min Kim and Mary Clare Jalonick in Washington contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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