Sen. Lindsey Graham's net worth estimated at $1.4 million after 31 years in Congress
Financial disclosures show the late South Carolina senator had a net worth between $600,000 and $2.2 million, placing him near the middle of the wealth distribution among members of Congress.
Public financial disclosures indicate that Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina died with an estimated net worth of about $1.4 million. The May filing listed a lower bound of just over $600,000 and an upper bound of a little more than $2.2 million, ranking him 294th out of 535 voting members of Congress, according to data compiled by Quiver Quantitative.
At age 71, Graham's wealth was close to the average for Americans aged 65 to 74, which Fidelity reports as $1.79 million, with a median of $409,900. The senator earned an annual salary of $174,000 while in office, and most of his assets were held in mutual funds and government bonds, avoiding direct stock holdings that have drawn criticism of other lawmakers.
Graham grew up in a modest household in Central, South Carolina, later living in a mobile home before attending college and serving in the Air Force. He died on Saturday night after a brief illness, with the D.C. medical examiner citing a ruptured aorta linked to chronic heart disease as the preliminary cause of death.
"I can’t die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out and do Israeli-Saudi normalization," a source close to Graham said he joked shortly before his death.
Graham's office did not respond to a request for comment.