{"id":4941,"date":"2026-07-14T18:34:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4941"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:34:37","slug":"darline-graham-sister-of-late-senator-lindsey-graham-will-be-sworn-in-to-fill-her-brothers-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4941","title":{"rendered":"Darline Graham, sister of late Senator Lindsey Graham, will be sworn in to fill her brother\u2019s term"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Darline Graham, the sister of the late South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, will be sworn in by the Senate on Tuesday afternoon \u2014 filling the seat just three days after her brother\u2019s sudden death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4939\">Mass. high court bars GOP lieutenant governor candidate from ballot amid \u2018overwhelming evidence\u2019 of fraud<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Graham was appointed by South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster on Monday to fill the remaining months of her brother\u2019s current term. A separate special election will be held next month to pick a new Republican nominee in the general election for Lindsey\u2019s Graham\u2019s seat, as he had been seeking a fifth term this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Darline Graham, who will be the state\u2019s first female senator, has not previously held public office. She has worked as an optician and at various state agencies, including the South Carolina Commission for the Blind and the Department of Employment and Workforce. She is married to Larry Nordone but will be known in the Senate as Darline Graham, her legal name.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>She said on Monday that her older brother, who raised her after their parents died, had always been there for her. \u201cAnd now, I will be there for him,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Graham, 71, died unexpectedly on Saturday in Washington. A preliminary report from the medical examiner said he suffered a tear in his aorta, known as an aortic dissection. One of President Trump\u2019s closest allies in the Senate, he was the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee and was set to become the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee in the next Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said before the swearing in Tuesday that he knows Darline Graham \u201cwill carry on Lindsey\u2019s tireless service to South Carolina.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Graham has often been by her brother\u2019s side <\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Lindsey Graham, who was not married and did not have children, was exceptionally close to his sister. He became her legal guardian after their parents died, when he was 22 and she was 13. She often appeared at his campaign events and supported him in speeches and campaign ads, and she was there as he filed reelection paperwork earlier this year, along with her children and grandchildren.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cTo Lindsey, I miss you more than I can even put into words,\u201d his sister said as McMaster announced her appointment. \u201cBut I\u2019m going to do this. I got it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4937\">Collins calls for ending all \u2018non-urgent\u2019 ICE car stops after Maine shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>McMaster said the two had spoken \u201cin the wee hours of Sunday morning\u201d after Graham\u2019s death, and he asked her to serve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI had wondered what you would say, and I was humbled by your quickness to see the duty that you had to serve,\u201d McMaster said. He added that President Donald Trump \u201cthought it was a great idea\u201d when he later told him of his pick. Trump announced his support for Graham to fill the seat earlier Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>South Carolina holds a special primary in August <\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>According to South Carolina law, a one-week filing period for a special primary election begins on the second Tuesday after the candidate\u2019s death, or July 21.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The special primary election would be held on the second Tuesday after that filing period closes, or Aug. 11. Any necessary runoff would follow two weeks after that, or Aug. 25.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>From that point, the new nominee would have just over two months to campaign for the general election on Nov. 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Several Republicans are potentially eyeing a run, including Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and Republican Reps. Russell Fry, Nancy Mace and Ralph Norman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><i>Associated Press writer Meg Kinnard contributed to this report from Columbia, South Carolina.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4935\">E. Jean Carroll is paid $5.8 million in Trump sex abuse and defamation case<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A separate special election will be held next month to pick a new Republican nominee in the general election for Lindsey\u2019s Graham\u2019s seat, as he had been seeking a fifth term this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Darline Graham, sister of late Senator Lindsey Graham, will be sworn in to fill her brother\u2019s term - Boston Relocation Insider<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4941\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Darline Graham, sister of late Senator Lindsey Graham, will be sworn in to fill her brother\u2019s term - 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