New Delhi, July 14 -- COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster named Darline Graham Nordone, younger sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, as his interim replacement in the United States Senate on Sunday, filling the vacancy left by Graham's sudden death at age 71.

McMaster announced the appointment at 4 p.m., according to CBS News, confirming what President Trump had signaled hours earlier on Truth Social. Nordone is set to be sworn in Wednesday and will hold the seat through January 3, 2027, the final months of the term Graham was six months into when he died.

Behind the appointment is a story Graham told for decades. When he was 22 and his sister was 13, their mother died in 1976; their father followed less than t...