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Memorial services honoring the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., will be held later this month in Washington, D.C., and South Carolina, according to his office.
Taylor Reidy, Graham’s communications director, announced Friday that a memorial service will take place in Washington on Tuesday, July 28, followed by services in Columbia and Pickens County, South Carolina, on Wednesday, July 29.
Reidy said additional details, including times and locations, will be released later.
The announcement comes less than a week after Graham died Saturday from an aortic dissection at age 71.
The memorial schedule follows several days of planning by Graham’s family and congressional colleagues. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., previously said funeral arrangements had been complicated by the number of foreign leaders who expressed interest in attending.
Scott also said Graham had been offered the opportunity to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol, although it has not been announced whether his family accepted the invitation.
Graham represented South Carolina in the Senate beginning in 2003 after serving four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. During more than 30 years in Congress, he became a leading Republican voice on national security, military affairs and foreign policy.
Although Graham was an outspoken critic of Donald Trump during the 2016 Republican presidential primary, the two later became close political allies. Graham strongly supported many of the president’s judicial nominations and defended the president during both impeachment trials.
Following Graham’s death, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster appointed Graham’s sister, Sen. Darline Graham, to serve as the state’s interim U.S. senator through January 2027 while voters elect a successor in a special election.
Candidate filing for the Republican primary opens July 21 and closes July 28. The special primary is scheduled for Aug. 11, with a runoff, if needed, on Aug. 25. The general election will be held Nov. 3.
The memorial services are expected to bring together political leaders from across the country to honor Graham’s decades of public service and influence in the Senate.