Lindsey Graham

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Lindsey Graham is South Carolina's senior Republican senator and chairman of the Budget Committee, a retired Air Force Reserve colonel and former House impeachment manager serving his fifth term.

Lindsey Olin Graham is the senior U.S. Senator from South Carolina, a Republican first elected in 2002 to succeed Strom Thurmond and re-elected in 2008, 2014, and 2020. A Central, South Carolina native and the son of small-town store owners who both died when he was young, Graham graduated from the University of South Carolina and its law school and served as a Judge Advocate General in the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Reserve, retiring as a colonel. He was elected to the U.S. House in 1994 and served four terms, including as a manager during the 1999 Clinton impeachment trial. In the 119th Congress, he serves as chairman of the Budget Committee and as a member of Appropriations, Judiciary, Environment and Public Works, and Armed Services committees. He holds a chair position on the Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs. Graham is a leading Republican voice on foreign policy, judicial nominations, and immigration, and he ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. He remains influential on defense and national security issues.