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Lindsey Olin Graham (born July 9, 1955) is an American politician from South Carolina. A member of the Republican Party, he is currently the senior United States Senator from that state. He serves on the Armed Services and Judiciary Committees.
Personal life
Graham was born in Central, South Carolina, where his father owned a liquor store. Graham was the first member of his family to attend college and joined ROTC, hoping to fly, but did not qualify for flying. Because his mother died when he was 21, and his father 15 months later, the service allowed Graham to attend law school in South Carolina so he could be near home and care for his sister, whom he adopted. Upon graduating, and his sister going to college, Graham was sent to Europe as a military prosecutor.
Graham graduated from the University of South Carolina at Columbia with a B.A. in Psychology in 1977 and from its school of law with a J.D. in 1981, and eventually entered private practice as a lawyer. He is a brother of the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity. Graham has never married.
Military service
Graham has served in the United States Air Force since 1982, serving on active duty until 1988, and then in the South Carolina Air National Guard and as an Air Force reservist. During the Gulf War, he was recalled to active duty, serving as a Judge Advocate at McIntire Air National Guard Station in Eastover, South Carolina, where he helped brief departing pilots on the laws of war. In 2004, Graham received a promotion to Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserves at a White House ceremony officiated by President George W. Bush.
While in the Air Force Standby Reserve, Graham served as an appellate judge on the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals. In September 2006 the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled that it was a violation of the Incompatibility Clause of the Constitution, which states that "no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office", for Graham to have been a judge on the criminal appeals court.
Political career in the House of Representatives and the Senate
In 1992, Senator Graham was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives and in 1994 to the United States House of Representatives, where he quickly became powerful as a member of the Judiciary Committee during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998. Graham opposed some articles, but vigorously supported others. In January and February of 1999, after two impeachment articles had been passed by the full House, he was one of the managers who brought the House's case to Clinton's trial in the Senate. Though the Senate did not convict Clinton, Graham became nationally known.
He was reelected to the House in 1996, 1998 and 2000. In 2002, upon the retirement of the long-serving Senator Strom Thurmond, the much younger Graham defeated his Democratic opponent, Alex Sanders, and became South Carolina's first new United States Senator in thirty-six years.
Legislative and Congressional Committees on which Graham has served
SC House of Representatives: Judiciary Committee
US House of Representatives
* U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce 1995-2002
* U.S. House Committee on International Relations 1995-1998
* U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security1995-1997 (National Security at the time)
* U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary 1997-2002
* U.S. House Committee on Armed Services 1999-2002
U.S. Senate
* United States Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor, and Pensions 2002-2004
* United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary 2002-present
* United States Senate Committee on the Armed Services 2002-present
* United States Senate Committee on the Budget 2004-present
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