{"id":370212,"date":"2026-07-12T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370212\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T13:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:00:09","slug":"u-s-senator-lindsey-graham-of-south-carolina-dies-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370212\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina dies at 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH CAROLINA (WPDE) \u2014 Sen. Lindsey Graham has died at age 71 following a sudden illness, his office announced in a statement posted to the South Carolina Republican\u2019s social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSen. Lindsey Graham passed away today at the age of 71 due to a sudden illness,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Graham, who represented South Carolina in the U.S. Senate since 2003, was a prominent figure in national politics and served for decades in public office.<\/p>\n<p>South Carlina Governor Henry McMaster shared a statement online.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump also issued a statement overnight on Truth Social, mourning Graham\u2019s death and offering condolences.<\/p>\n<p>Additional details about his death and funeral arrangements were not immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH CAROLINA (WPDE) \u2014 Sen. Lindsey Graham has died at age 71 following a sudden illness, his office&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-370212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}