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description of the image, Lindsey Graham, 71, was a prominent Republican senator from South Carolina.
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The office of Lindsey Graham, the senior Republican senator, announced that she died Saturday evening after a short and sudden illness.
His office’s communications director said this in a post on social media platform X on Sunday morning.
Mr. Graham, 71, was a prominent Republican senator from South Carolina. In the early years of his political career, he was one of the outspoken critics of US President Donald Trump, but later became one of his staunch allies in Congress.
He was one of the famous figures of the conservative movement and an ardent opponent of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In recent years, Mr. Graham has repeatedly supported a policy of maximum pressure on Iran and demanded tougher sanctions. He also believed that the nuclear program and regional activities, as well as the role of proxies linked to Iran in the Middle East, were Washington’s main concerns.
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description of the image, Lindsey Graham was one of the close associates of Donald Trump, the US President.
He returned on Friday from Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, where he met with President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Lindsey Graham was a staunch supporter of US support for Ukraine. “Putin won’t stop with Ukraine,” he told the BBC in 2023.
“Weakness in Ukraine means failure in Taiwan,” the Republican senator said.
Mr. Graham entered the U.S. Senate in 2002. Before the Senate, in 1994, he was elected to represent a South Carolina district in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Lindsey Graham’s official website described him as a strong supporter of defense issues and wrote that he was trying to “protect the long-term national security interests of the United States” in the “war on terrorism.”
He recently chaired the Senate Budget Committee. Mr. Graham also served on the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Senate Environment and Public Affairs Committee.
He was unmarried and lived in Seneca, South Carolina.