Bob Graham

{{About|the politician from Florida|other people named Bob Graham|Bob Graham (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Bob Graham

|image = Bob Graham, official Senate photo portrait, color.jpg

|caption = Official portrait, 1993

|office1 = Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee

|term_start1 = June 6, 2001

|term_end1 = January 3, 2003

|predecessor1 = Richard Shelby

|successor1 = Pat Roberts

|jr/sr = United States Senator

|state = Florida

|term_start = January 3, 1987

|term_end = January 3, 2005

|predecessor = Paula Hawkins

|successor = Mel Martínez

|order2 = 38th Governor of Florida

|lieutenant2 = Wayne Mixson

|term_start2 = January 2, 1979

|term_end2 = January 3, 1987

|predecessor2 = Reubin Askew

|successor2 = Wayne Mixson

|office3 = Member of the Florida Senate

|term_start3 = November 3, 1970

|term_end3 = November 7, 1978

|predecessor3 = Richard Stone

|successor3 = John Hill

|constituency3 = 48th district (1970–1972)
33rd district (1972–1978)

|office4 = Member of the Florida House of Representatives

|term_start4 = November 8, 1966

|term_end4 = November 3, 1970

|predecessor4 = Constituency established

|successor4 = Sherman S. Winn

|constituency4 = Dade County Group 16 (1966–1967)
105th district (1967–1970)

|birth_name = Daniel Robert Graham

|birth_date = {{birth date|1936|11|9}}

|birth_place = Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|2024|4|16|1936|11|9}}

|death_place = Gainesville, Florida, U.S.

|party = Democratic

|spouse = {{marriage|Adele Khoury|1959}}

|children = 4, including Gwen

|relatives = Ernest Graham (father)
Phil Graham (half-brother)
Katharine Graham (sister-in-law)
Jimmy Carter (fourth cousin)

|education = University of Florida (BA)
Harvard University (LLB)

|signature = Bobgrahamsign.png

}}

Daniel Robert Graham (November 9, 1936 – April 16, 2024) was an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 38th governor of Florida from 1979 to 1987 and a United States senator from Florida from 1987 to 2005. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

Born in Coral Gables, Florida, Graham won election to the Florida Legislature after graduating from Harvard Law School. After serving in both houses of the Florida Legislature, Graham won the 1978 Florida gubernatorial election, and was reelected in 1982. In the 1986 Senate elections, Graham defeated incumbent Republican Senator Paula Hawkins. He helped found the Democratic Leadership Council and eventually became Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Graham ran for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, but dropped out before the first primaries. He declined to seek reelection in 2004 and retired from the Senate.

Graham co-chaired the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling and as a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and the CIA External Advisory Board. He worked at the Bob Graham Center for Public Service at his undergraduate alma mater, the University of Florida. He also served as Chairman of the Commission on the Prevention of WMD proliferation and terrorism. Through the WMD policy center he advocated for the recommendations in the Commission's report, "World at Risk". In 2011, Graham published his first novel, the thriller The Keys to the Kingdom.{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/bob-graham-promoting-novel-keys-to-the-kingdom/2011/06/20/AGPlGXjH_story.html |first=Linda |last=Davidson |title=Bob Graham pens spy novel 'Keys to the Kingdom' |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=June 25, 2011 |access-date=May 4, 2012 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=April 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415073844/http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/bob-graham-promoting-novel-keys-to-the-kingdom/2011/06/20/AGPlGXjH_story.html |url-status=live }} He also wrote four nonfiction books, Workdays: Finding Florida on the Job, Intelligence Matters, World at Risk,{{cite book |author-link=Graham/Talent WMD Commission |author=The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc123525/ |title=World at Risk: The Report of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism |publisher=Vintage Books |date=December 2008 |isbn=9780307473264 |via=UNT Digital Library |access-date=December 10, 2022 |archive-date=December 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221210191410/https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc123525/ |url-status=live }} and America: The Owner's Manual, and an illustrated children's book, Rhoda the Alligator.

Early life

Graham was born in Coral Gables, Florida, to Hilda Elizabeth (née Simmons), a schoolteacher, and Ernest R. Graham, a Florida state senator, mining engineer, and dairy/cattleman.{{Cite web |first=William Addams |last=Reitwiesner |author-link=William Addams Reitwiesner |url=http://www.wargs.com/political/graham.html |title=Ancestry of Bob Graham |website=WARGS (William Addams Reitwiesner Genealogical Services) |access-date=July 24, 2018 |archive-date=March 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328225536/http://www.wargs.com/political/graham.html |url-status=live }} He was the youngest of four children. His older half-brother, Phil Graham, was publisher and co-owner of The Washington Post. He married Adele Khoury, of Miami Shores, in 1959. One of their daughters, Gwen Graham, was a U.S. Representative from Florida from 2015 to 2017. In 2021, Gwen was confirmed as Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of Education.{{cite news |first=Jeffrey |last=Schweers |url=https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/state/2021/10/06/gwen-graham-confirmed-assistant-secretary-education/6022029001 |title=Gwen Graham's nomination as assistant secretary of education confirmed by U.S. Senate |date=October 6, 2021 |newspaper=Tallahassee Democrat |access-date=November 18, 2022 |archive-date=January 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230104142112/https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/state/2021/10/06/gwen-graham-confirmed-assistant-secretary-education/6022029001/ |url-status=live }}

Bob Graham attended Miami Senior High School from 1952 to 1955; he was student body president his senior year. He was International Trustee of the Key Club, the Kiwanis service organization. While at Miami High Graham was the recipient of the Sigma Chi Award, the school's highest honor. He received a bachelor's degree in 1959 in political science from the University of Florida, where he was a member of the Epsilon Zeta chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the University of Florida Hall of Fame, and Florida Blue Key.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/us/bob-graham-dead.html |title=Bob Graham, Former Florida Governor and Senator, Dies at 87 |last=McFadden |first=Robert D. |author-link=Robert D. McFadden |date=April 16, 2024 |access-date=April 16, 2024 |newspaper=The New York Times |url-access=subscription |archive-date=April 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417032446/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/us/bob-graham-dead.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=https://bobgrahamcenter.ufl.edu/about/bob-graham/|title=Bob Graham|website=Bob Graham Center for Public Service|publisher=University of Florida|access-date=April 16, 2024|archive-date=January 23, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240123160520/https://bobgrahamcenter.ufl.edu/about/bob-graham/|url-status=live}} He earned a Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1962.

Political career

Graham was elected to the Florida Senate in 1970, from Dade County. Redistricted into a seat encompassing portions of northern Dade and southern Broward County, Graham was reelected to District 33 in 1972 and 1976.

=Workdays=

File:Bob_Graham_pooper_scooper.jpg

Graham's campaign trademark was to work full eight-hour days at various jobs representing Florida's constituents.{{Cite web|url=https://www.floridamemory.com/learn/exhibits/photo_exhibits/bobgraham/|title=Florida Memory, State Archives and Library of Florida|access-date=October 13, 2021|archive-date=October 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024175821/https://www.floridamemory.com/learn/exhibits/photo_exhibits/bobgraham/|url-status=live}} In 1974,{{Cite web|url=https://findingaids.uflib.ufl.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/37199|title=University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries; object number 37199|access-date=October 19, 2021|archive-date=October 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019192733/https://findingaids.uflib.ufl.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/37199|url-status=live}} Graham was on the Education Committee when it traveled to local Florida jurisdictions. After a public meeting in Miami, a frustrated English teacher, M. Sue Riley, said to Graham, "The main problem with the Education Committee is no one has any experience in education." Taken aback, Graham responded, "Well, what can I do about that?" Riley then arranged for Graham to teach a semester of civics at Miami Carol City Senior High School. Three years later, Graham used his "workday" idea to kick-start his gubernatorial campaign. Throughout 1977 and into 1978, Graham conducted 100 workdays, including bellhop, tomato picker, and road construction paver. To stay legitimate, he worked an entire day, kept the press at a distance, and performed all aspects of the job. Graham performed more than 400 workdays during his political career.{{Cite web|url=https://findingaids.uflib.ufl.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/37244|title=University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries; object number 37244|access-date=October 19, 2021|archive-date=October 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019192733/https://findingaids.uflib.ufl.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/37244|url-status=live}}

=Governor of Florida=

Graham was elected to the governorship of Florida in 1978 after a seven-way Democratic primary race in which he initially placed second to Robert L. Shevin. His supporters at the time dubbed themselves "Graham crackers."{{cite news |first=Bob |last=D'Angelo |url=https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/bob-graham-former-florida-governor-us-senator-dead-87/RS7NAZ4IBZCSBK2J3IFLKX2MUA/ |title=Bob Graham, former Florida governor, US senator, dead at 87 |work=KIRO-TV |publisher=Cox Media Group |location=Seattle, WA |access-date=April 16, 2024 |date=April 16, 2024 |archive-date=April 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417052017/https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/bob-graham-former-florida-governor-us-senator-dead-87/RS7NAZ4IBZCSBK2J3IFLKX2MUA/ |url-status=live }}

In his first month as governor, Graham established a 22-member Florida Tax Commission, headed by Lieutenant Governor Wayne Mixson, to recommend policy to "make taxes more fair". In January 1979, he appointed Florida state senators Buddy MacKay and Kenneth M. Myers; Florida state representatives Gwen Margolis and Carl Ogden; businessman Preston A. Wells Jr. and others to the commission.{{Cite news |last=Nolan |first=Jack |date=January 11, 1979|title=5 Central Floridians join state tax commission |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-orlando-sentinel-5-central-floridian/161498755/ |access-date=2025-01-22 |newspaper=Orlando Sentinel |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=January 11, 1979|title=Graham picks new members for tax panel |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/tallahassee-democrat-graham-picks-new-me/161498260/ |access-date=2025-01-22 |newspaper=Tallahassee Democrat |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=January 11, 1979|title=Graham (continued) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/tallahassee-democrat-graham-continued/161498547/ |access-date=2024-12-24 |newspaper=Tallahassee Democrat |language=en}}

Graham emphasized education and focused on improving the state's public universities. In addition, Graham's administration focused on economic diversification and environmental policies. During his tenure as governor, the state added 1.2 million jobs, and for the first time in state history, Floridians' per capita income exceeded the U.S. average.

Graham also launched the most extensive environmental protection program in Florida history, focused on preserving endangered lands. During his tenure, thousands of acres of threatened and environmentally important lands were brought into state ownership for permanent protection. His keystone accomplishment was the establishment of the Save the Everglades program, which has now been joined by the federal government in a commitment to restore the Everglades.

Graham left the governorship with an 83% approval rating. According to The New York Times, he was one of Florida's most popular politicians.{{cite news |last1=Nagourney |first1=Adam |title=Senator Graham Considers Run for President |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/24/politics/campaigns/24GRAH.html |access-date=October 9, 2014 |work=The New York Times |date=December 24, 2002 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=October 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141015164236/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/24/politics/campaigns/24GRAH.html |url-status=live }}

File:Florida Governor-elect Graham being sworn in by Chief Justice Arthur England.jpg|Graham sworn in as governor, January 1979

File:Bob Graham delivers last address as governor.jpg|Graham delivering his last public address as governor before assuming his Senate seat

=U.S. Senator=

Graham was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, defeating incumbent Senator Paula Hawkins, 55% to 45%.{{Cite web |author=Clerk of the House of Representatives |author-link=Clerk of the United States House of Representatives |date=1987 |title=Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 1986 |url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1986election.pdf |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=April 17, 2024 |archive-date=January 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170123044610/http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1986election.pdf |url-status=live}} He was reelected in 1992 (over Bill Grant, 66% to 34%){{cite web |url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1992election.pdf |title=Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional election of November 3, 1992 |author=Clerk of the House of Representatives |author-link=Clerk of the United States House of Representatives |date=1993 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=April 17, 2024 |archive-date=January 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170123044622/http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1992election.pdf |url-status=live}} and 1998 (over Charlie Crist, 63% to 37%){{cite web |url=https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1998/98Stat.htm |title=Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 3, 1998 |author=Clerk of the House of Representatives |author-link=Clerk of the United States House of Representatives |date=1999 |access-date=April 17, 2024 |archive-date=February 3, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110203104051/https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1998/98Stat.htm |url-status=live}} and chose not to seek reelection in 2004. Upon retiring from the Senate in January 2005, Graham had served 38 consecutive years in public office.

File:Bob Graham presiding over the Senate.jpg Supreme Court appointee Robert Bork]]

Graham served 10 years on the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which he chaired during and after 9/11 and the run-up to the Iraq war. He led the joint congressional investigation into 9/11. As chair of the Intelligence Committee, Graham opposed the War in Iraq and was one of the 23 senators to vote against President George W. Bush's request for authorization of the use of military force. After meeting with military leaders in February 2002 and requesting and reviewing a National Intelligence Estimate, he said he "felt we were being manipulated and that the result was going to distract us from where our real enemies were". He continued to oppose the Iraq War, saying in 2008: "I'm afraid I never wavered from my belief that this was a distraction that was going to come to a bad end in Iraq and an even worse end in Afghanistan".{{cite web |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/17/graham-i-never-wavered-i_n_91844.html |title=Graham: I Never Wavered In My Belief That The War Was Wrong |last=Stein |first=Sam |work=The Huffington Post |date=March 28, 2008 |access-date=November 24, 2010 |archive-date=July 26, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726012204/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/17/graham-i-never-wavered-i_n_91844.html |url-status=live }}

In 2004, Graham published Intelligence Matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia and the Failure of America's War on Terror.

Graham had a well-known habit of meticulously logging his daily activities (some as mundane as when he ate a tuna sandwich or rewound a tape of Ace Ventura) on color-coded notebooks, which Salon.com suggested in 2003 may have harmed his standing as a possible vice presidential candidate.{{Cite news |last=Tapper |first=Jake |author-link=Jake Tapper |url=https://www.salon.com/2003/06/03/graham_7/ |title='1:30–1:45: Rewind Ace Ventura' |work=Salon.com |date=June 3, 2003 |access-date=November 8, 2014 |archive-date=November 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109033620/http://www.salon.com/2003/06/03/graham_7/ |url-status=live }} The notebooks are now housed at the University of Florida library.{{cite news |first=Nathan |last=Crabbe |url=https://www.ocala.com/story/news/local/2010/08/13/bob-grahams-collection-at-uf-details-life/31411604007/ |title=Bob Graham's collection at UF details life |newspaper=Ocala StarBanner |access-date=April 17, 2024 |date=August 13, 2010 |archive-date=December 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205012345/https://www.ocala.com/story/news/local/2010/08/13/bob-grahams-collection-at-uf-details-life/31411604007/ |url-status=live }}

=Presidential and vice presidential politics=

Graham was considered as a Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1988, 1992, 2000, and 2004.{{cite web |url=http://www.politics1.com/dems04.htm |website=Politics1.com |title=Guide to the Inactive 2004 Democratic Presidential Prospects |publisher=Ron Gunzburger |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515223015/http://politics1.com/dems04.htm |archive-date=May 15, 2008}}{{Cite news |first=Gwen |last=Ifill |author-link=Gwen Ifill |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/10/us/1992-campaign-democrats-clinton-selects-senator-gore-tennessee-running-mate.html |title=The 1992 Campaign: Democrats; Clinton Selects Senator Gore of Tennessee as Running Mate |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 10, 1992 |url-access=subscription |access-date=April 17, 2024 |archive-date=July 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702052545/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/10/us/1992-campaign-democrats-clinton-selects-senator-gore-tennessee-running-mate.html |url-status=live }} He was a finalist on Bill Clinton's shortlist of running mates in 1992, and was also considered by Al Gore in 2000.{{Cite news |url=http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/08/07/gore.lieberman/index.html |title=Gore, Lieberman prepare for public debut of Democratic ticket |work=CNN |date=August 7, 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070813055539/http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/08/07/gore.lieberman/index.html |archive-date=August 13, 2007}}

==2004 presidential election==

In December 2002, Graham announced his candidacy for President of the United States in the 2004 election. However, he withdrew from the race in October 2003, several months after heart surgery, and retired from the Senate the following year.

After politics

File:Former senator Bob Graham 2.jpg (right) at the dedication ceremony for Pugh Hall, home of the Graham Center for Public Service at the University of Florida]]

Graham spent the 2005–2006 academic year at Harvard University, where he was a fellow at the Institute of Politics.{{cite web |title=Bob Graham |url=https://iop.harvard.edu/fellows/bob-graham |department=The Institute of Politics at Harvard University |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=April 17, 2024 |language=en |date=Fall 2005 |archive-date=April 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417040606/https://iop.harvard.edu/fellows/bob-graham |url-status=live}} He and his wife lived among undergraduates in Mather House for the year.{{Cite news |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/7/22/graham-to-come-to-iop-as/ |last=Lynn |first=Brendan R. |date=July 22, 2005 |title=Graham to Come to IOP As Fellow |newspaper=The Harvard Crimson |access-date=April 17, 2024 |archive-date=April 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417040548/https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/7/22/graham-to-come-to-iop-as/ |url-status=live}} As a fellow, Graham taught a weekly study group about effective citizenship. During his time at Harvard, Graham began work on a book about effective citizenship, which would later become America, the Owner's Manual. Later, he would credit his undergraduate assistants at Harvard, as well as professors Archon Fung, David King, and Robert D. Putnam, as having helped him understand and conceive of the ideas that would become the book.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=coOuDAAAQBAJ |first1=Bob |last1=Graham |first2=Chris |last2=Hand |title=America, The Owner's Manual: You Can Fight City Hall—And Win |date=July 15, 2016 |location=Los Angeles |publisher=SAGE/CQ Press |edition=rev. 2017 |isbn=9781506371382 |access-date=April 17, 2024 |archive-date=April 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417201211/https://books.google.com/books?id=coOuDAAAQBAJ |url-status=live}}

After his year at Harvard, Graham focused on founding a center to train future political leaders at the University of Florida, where he earned his bachelor's degree in political science in 1959.{{cite news |last1=Lash |first1=Jolie |url=https://abc7chicago.com/former-senator-and-florida-governor-bob-graham-dies-at-87/14680915/ |title=Former Senator and Florida Governor Bob Graham dies at 87 |access-date=April 17, 2024 |work=ABC7 Chicago |date=April 17, 2024 |language=en |archive-date=April 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417195153/https://abc7chicago.com/former-senator-and-florida-governor-bob-graham-dies-at-87/14680915/ |url-status=live}}

The Bob Graham Center for Public Service is housed within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida. It provides students with opportunities to train for future leadership positions, and allows them to engage with policy makers and scholars in the university community. On February 9, 2008, The James and Alexis Pugh Hall, funded by longtime friends of the Graham family, was dedicated in the historic area of campus. Pugh Hall serves as the Center's home as well as the university's oral history and African and Asian languages programs.{{cite web |title=About |url=https://bobgrahamcenter.ufl.edu/about/ |website=Bob Graham Center for Public Service |publisher=University of Florida |access-date=April 17, 2024 |language=en |archive-date=April 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240405035209/https://bobgrahamcenter.ufl.edu/about/ |url-status=live}}

In 2009, Graham published America, The Owner's Manual: Making Government Work for You, a book about inspiring and teaching citizens to effectively participate in democracy. In 2016, Sen. Graham and co-author Chris Hand released an update to America: The Owner's Manual, entitled America, The Owner’s Manual: You Can Fight City Hall — And Win.{{Cite press release |date=2016-10-18 |title=AMERICA, The Owner's Manual: You Can Fight City Hall — And Win |url=https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/press/america-the-owner%E2%80%99s-manual-you-can-fight-city-hall-%E2%80%94-and-win |access-date=2024-08-16 |website=SAGE Publications Inc |language=en}}{{Cite book |date=2016 |title=AMERICA, The Owner's Manual: You Can Fight City Hall — And Win |isbn=978-1-5063-5058-5 |access-date=2024-08-17 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ISBN9781506350585 |publisher=SAGE Publications Inc |language=en}}

In the years after his retirement from the Senate, Graham published almost 70 op-eds on state and national issues. He was also a member of the Inter-American Dialogue, a think tank based in Washington, D.C.{{Cite web |url=http://www.thedialogue.org/experts/bob-graham/ |title=Bob Graham |website=The Dialogue |publisher=Inter-American Dialogue |date=April 4, 2016 |access-date=April 12, 2017 |archive-date=April 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413071556/http://www.thedialogue.org/experts/bob-graham/ |url-status=live}}

Graham's health declined after a stroke in 2020. On April 16, 2024, he died at a retirement community in Gainesville, Florida, at the age of 87.{{Cite news |first=Bill |last=Cotterell |title=Bob Graham, former Florida governor and U.S. senator with a common touch, dies at 87 |url=https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/16/bob-graham-dies-former-florida-governor-us-senator-obituary/73332740007/ |access-date=April 17, 2024 |date=April 16, 2024 |newspaper=Tallahassee Democrat |language=en-US |archive-date=April 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417020516/https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/16/bob-graham-dies-former-florida-governor-us-senator-obituary/73332740007/ |url-status=live}}

Honors

On May 6, 2006, at the spring commencement for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the University of Florida awarded Graham an honorary doctorate, the Doctor of Public Service.{{Cite web |title=UF Honorary Degrees |url=https://fora.aa.ufl.edu/docs//21//Jan%202019%20Honorary%20Degrees.pdf |access-date=March 31, 2022 |website=University of Florida |archive-date=December 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211216185508/https://fora.aa.ufl.edu/docs//21//Jan%202019%20Honorary%20Degrees.pdf |url-status=live }}

On November 18, 2005, the Florida Legislature renamed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, which was rebuilt during Graham's time as governor, the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge.{{cite news|url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2005/11/21/bridge-a-tribute-to-an-ex-governor/|title=Bridge a tribute to an ex-governor|last1=Heller|first1=Jean|last2=Adair|first2=Bill|date=November 21, 2005|work=Tampa Bay Times|access-date=April 16, 2024|archive-date=April 17, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417050730/https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2005/11/21/bridge-a-tribute-to-an-ex-governor/|url-status=live}}

References

External links

[https://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article1936686.html 1983 Interview by Dave Barry]
[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000352/ Biography from the Congressional Biographical Directory]
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[https://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2004/11/11_401.html Intelligence Matters — If the president wants to deny the American people knowledge as to what the Saudis did to support the terrorists, that's the president's prerogative.]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20071104013541/http://www.graham.centers.ufl.edu/ The Bob Graham Center for Public Service at the University of Florida]
[http://floridamemory.com/photographiccollection/photo_exhibits/bobgraham/ Online Photo Exhibit of Bob Graham's workdays, presented by the State Archives of Florida]
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[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/01/AR2008120102710.html Nuclear or Biological Attack Called Likely]

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{{s-ttl|title=Member of the Florida House of Representatives
from the 105th district|years=1967–1970}}

{{s-ttl|title=Member of the Florida Senate
from the 48th district|years=1970–1972}}

{{s-ttl|title=Member of the Florida Senate
from the 33rd district|years=1972–1978}}

{{s-ttl|title=Democratic nominee for Governor of Florida|years=1978, 1982}}

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