https://pressclub.us/tags/obituary/ Recent content in obituary on Press Club US Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0300 https://pressclub.us/lindsey-graham-south-carolina-senator-and-foreign-policy-hawk-dies-at-71/ Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0300 https://pressclub.us/lindsey-graham-south-carolina-senator-and-foreign-policy-hawk-dies-at-71/ Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who spent more than two decades in the U.S. Senate and emerged as one of Washington’s most influential voices on defense and foreign policy, died Saturday night after what his office described as a brief and sudden illness. He was 71. A medical examiner’s preliminary findings pointed to an aortic dissection as the cause of death, according to officials familiar with the case. Graham had recently returned from a trip to Ukraine.