US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's sister, Darline Graham Nordone, has been appointed to replace him in the United States Senate for South Carolina after his sudden death in Washington DC at the weekend, Governor Henry McMaster confirmed on Monday.
The news came after Graham, a heavyweight Republican voice on foreign policy and close ally of President Donald Trump, died on Saturday at the age of 71. A preliminary finding from the Washington DC medical examiner cited an aortic dissection caused by cardiovascular disease. Graham, who never married and had no children, had been running for re-election in November and already held the Republican nomination for another six-year term.
