U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham has died suddenly at the age of 71.
The South Carolina legislator will be remembered for his prominent positions on an array of national and international issues.
One of them was immigration.
Graham was a member of the so-called "Gang of Eight" - four Republicans and four Democrats who pushed through a comprehensive immigration reform bill in 2013 only to see it flounder in the House of Representatives.
Graham also attended the 2008 Irish American Presidential Forum in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate that year, was the first from his party to attend such a forum.
Graham was one of three senators known as the "three amigos" and he was the last survivor of the threesome which also comprised Democrat/Independent Democrat Joe Lieberman and John McCain. McCain died in 2018 and Lieberman in 2024.
