India, July 28 -- World leaders and American lawmakers converged on Washington Tuesday to pay their respects to the late Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, with US President Donald Trump set to deliver a eulogy at the Washington National Cathedral in an extraordinary gathering that has also drawn Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, men Graham championed to the end of his life.

Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina who served four terms and became one of the most internationally connected figures in the US Senate, died of an aortic dissection on the evening of July 11, shortly after returning from a visit to Kyiv where he had met with Zelensky to discuss US sanctions on...