Bob Graham: A Florida life through the years

Former Florida Gov. and U.S. Senator Bob Graham speaks during the inaugural ceremonies.

Former Florida Gov. Bob Graham stands on a cypress stump and delivers a stunning rendition of his campaign song for the press and the Tallahassee Jaycees in his office in this file photo. The event was to publicize the Jaycee's Cracker Days on Sept. 11 and 12.

Former Florida Sen. Bob Graham delivering mail in Tallahassee, Florida on January 21, 1988.

Former Florida Gov. Bob Graham turned quarterback Graham during the annual football game between the press corps and capital staff.

A signed picture of Robin Gibson, left, with former Florida Gov. Bob Graham when Gibson served as Graham's general counsel.

First Lady Rosalynn Carter visited Tallahassee multiple times. In November 1978 she swung through town for a luncheon with then Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bob Graham.

Jimmy Buffett, right, works with then-Gov. Bob Graham to return a manatee to the Caloosahatchee River in 1982.

Paul Volcker, from left, D. Thane Cody, Mayor Jake Godbold, J.E. Davis and Gov. Bob Graham particpate in groundbreaking ceremonies for Mayo Clinic in May 1985. (Will Dickey/Florida Times-Union archive)

Florida Governor Bob Graham works as a waiter and serves dinner to Allen Morris (House clerk) and friend Mary Kerr Friedman. Graham pressed himself into service prior to the annual Capitol Press Club Skits at the Silver Slipper restaurant, 1979.

Florida Governor Bob Graham and Florida Lieutenant Governor Wayne Mixson, 1982

Gov. Bob Graham, right, dressed like Jimmy Buffett and Buffett wore Graham’s trademark Florida tie and pinstripe suit during a performance in 1984 at the Press Corps Skits in Tallahassee.

October 1986: Dr. and Mrs. Humphries pose with Gov. Bob Graham at FAMU President's Inaugural Ball.

Gwen Graham and her parents, former Governor Bob Graham and Adele Graham paid their respects to Reubin Askew on Wednesday. The memorial service for former Florida Gov. Reubin Askew took place at Faith Presbyterian Church, 2200 N. Meridian Road on Wednesday, March 19, 2014. A military honor guard transported the flag-draped coffin into the church for the hour long ceremony to honor the late Governor.

Florida 2nd Congressional District candidate Gwen Graham waves as singer Jimmy Buffett holds a Graham for Congress T-shirt. Graham's father, former Florida Gov. Bob Graham, watches at right.

Florida Governor Bob Graham and Florida Lieutenant Governor Wayne Mixson, 1979

1977 - State Senator Bob Graham during workday as a tomato picker for Six L's Farms in Naples.

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham discusses the core skills of effective citizens during a Center for Civic Engagement training event Oct. 26, 2018. The Center for Civic Engagement is the "action arm" of CivicCon, and will focus on empowering citizens to create positive change and to teach others to do the same.

Governor Reubin Askew With Ross Perot Bob Graham Janet Reno And Others At The Signing Of The Pow Bill 1971

Ex Justice Raymond Ehrlich With U S Senator Bob Graham Right And Florida Supreme Court Historical Society President Talbot 1991

Former Florida Gov. and U.S. Senator, Bob Graham, talks with a college student, Abigail Meggins, during a meet and greet session at Pensacola Little Theatre at end o the 2018 CivicCon community convention Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2018.

Aaron Brooks, presents Former Florida Gov. and U.S. Senator, Bob Graham, with a tie and records the moment with a selfie during CivicCon Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018.

Former Fla. Governor Bob Graham and co-author Chris Hand autograph a copy of their book for Johnnie Swann at Saturday's luncheon of the League of Women Voters of the Space Coast at the Radisson at the Port.

Then-Governor Bob Graham joined Tallahassee crews in removing trees and limbs during the aftermath of Hurricane Kate in November 1985.

Florida Governor Bob Graham and Mickey Mouse in 1985

Senator Bob Graham along with Mary Chiles met Tallahassee Democrat employees including Publisher Patrick Dorsey and Executive Editor Bob Gabordi to discuss a new a grant that will be used to fund Civics education in the state of Florida.

Former U.S. Sen. and Gov. Bob Graham met with FLORIDA TODAY’s Editorial Board in August to promote Amendment 1.

Former Gov., Bob Graham and his wife Adele listen as their daughter Gwen Graham debates Florida District 2 Congressman Steve Southerland at the Network of Entrepreneurs & Business Advocates, NEBA, luncheon on Sept. 30, 2014, at Capital City Country Club.

Former Gov. and U.S. Sen. Bob Graham talks about Amendment 1 during a meeting with FLORIDA TODAY’s editorial board in this file photo.

U.S. Congressional hopeful, Gwen Graham and her father Bob Graham, look at their newly purchased possum on Saturday. Politicians, local townsfolk and possum-loving people everywhere came out to the 45th annual Wausau Possum Festival in 2014 to enjoy the small town social graces and to help raise money for local businesses.

Former Governor Bob Graham and his wife, Adele Khoury Graham, are honored during Leon High's graduation ceremony on June 4 at the Leon County Civic Center.

Former Senator Bob Graham and his wife, Adele, attend the 2009 Leon High School graduation to see their granddaughter, Sarah Logan, graduate Magna Cum Laude on Wednesday, May 27, 2009.

Sen. Bob Graham has a line of supporters to get his autograph after buying his book "Intelligence Matters" at Barnes & Noble Booksellers on Apalachee Parkway Friday, Dec. 17, 2004.

In 1959, Bob Graham had a job in Washington, interning for the Florida congressman from Dade County, Dante Fascell.

With their oldest daughter, Gwen Logan (L) and students of Lincoln High School watching, Adele Graham pulls husband US Senator Bob Graham in for a closer kiss in 2003 after Graham announced he will not run for a fourth term as U.S. Senator from Florida.

US Senator Bob Graham (L) and Frank Parauka, US Fish and Wildlife Service biologist weigh a Gulf sturgeon on the Brothers River a tributary of the Apalachicola River in this 2002 photo. The fish topped the scales at over 30 pounts as it was being weighed, measured, and tagged.

Sen. Bob Graham reads "The Enormous Crocodile" by Roald Dahl to Donna Mann's K-1 class at Kate Sullivan Elementary on Thursday. Sen. Graham was the principal-for-a-day as part of his work day program in this undated photo.

Former President Bill Clinton, left, puts his arm around former Sen. Bob Graham during a rally for congressional candidate Gwen Graham held at FAMU in Tallahassee, Fla., on Sunday, October 26, 2014.

Kay and Jackie Pons share a laugh with former Florida Governors Charlie Crist and Bob Graham before taking the stage at The Moon. The Moon was packed to capacity on Monday, August 15, 2011, to raise funds for Leon County School Superintendent Jackie Pons' race for another term as the school's leader. Former Governor's Charlie Crist and Bob Graham spoke on behalf of Pons during the nightly bash for Pons.

From left, Sen. Bill Nelson, congressional candidate Gwen Graham, former President Bill Clinton, and former Sen. Bob Graham pose during a rally for congressional candidate Gwen Graham held at FAMU in Tallahassee, Fla., on Sunday, October 26, 2014.

Former U.S. Senator and Florida's 38th governor, Bob Graham, left, chats with Wayne Mixson, who served as his lieutenant governor, before addressing a crowd of about 100 at the Historic Capitol in this 2014 photo.

On Monday afternoon November 21, 2005 at the North Skyway Park Rest Area, family, friends and dignitaries gathered for a ceremony to rename the bridge the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway in honor of former Florida Governor and U.S. Senator Bob Graham. Graham and his wife Adele prepare of a family portrait as their grandson William McCullough, 11, hams it up for the cameras.

The musical duo Hot Tamale played at a campaign event for Gwen Graham on Aug. 1, 2014. Her father attended and you can see the two guitars on either side of Bob Graham.

Former Florida Gov. and Sen. Bob Graham spoke Thursday, April 20, 2017, while promoting his book, "America, The Owner's Manual," at the Vero Beach Book Center in Vero Beach.

Cordelia Marks, of Jensen Beach, speaks with U.S. Senator and former Gov. Bob Graham on Thursday, April 20, 2017, after his talk promoting his book, "America, The Owner's Manual," at the Vero Beach Book Center in Vero Beach.

Former Florida Gov. and U.S. Sen. Bob Graham spoke Thursday, April 20, 2017, while promoting his book, "America, The Owner's Manual," at the Vero Beach Book Center in Vero Beach.

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham (right) gets a hug from Scott Van Duzer at Big Apple Pizza in Fort Pierce on Oct. 23, 2012.

State portrait of Gov. Bob Graham (Daniel Robert Graham), Florida's 38th governor. The Democrat was in office from 1979 to 1987. He was born in Coral Gables and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Florida and a law degree from Harvard University in 1962. Graham won a term in the Florida House of Representatives in 1966 and went on to serve in the Florida Senate from 1970 to 1978. He was elected governor that year. In 1986 Graham was elected U.S. Senator from Florida. He was reelected in 1992 and 1998.

Ed Kellerman, who runs the National Museum of Political Memorabilia, shared these photos with the former Gov. Bob Graham and his wife, Adele, as well as some campaign pins, posters and stickers through the years.

Ed Kellerman, who runs the National Museum of Political Memorabilia, shared these photos with the former Gov. Bob Graham and his wife, Adele, as well as some campaign pins, posters and stickers through the years.

Ed Kellerman, who runs the National Museum of Political Memorabilia, shared these photos with the former Gov. Bob Graham and his wife, Adele, as well as some campaign pins, posters and stickers through the years.

Florida U.S. Sen. Bob Graham visits St. Lucie County in January, 2002, where he spent a day as a security guard at the St. Lucie Nuclear Plant on South Hutchinson Island.

Ed Kellerman, who runs the National Museum of Political Memorabilia, shared these photos with the former Gov. Bob Graham and his wife, Adele, as well as some campaign pins, posters and stickers through the years.

Ed Kellerman, who runs the National Museum of Political Memorabilia, shared these photos with the former Gov. Bob Graham and his wife, Adele, as well as some campaign pins, posters and stickers through the years. Adele photobombed him at an event featuring presidential scholar Jon Meacham.

Ed Kellerman, who runs the National Museum of Political Memorabilia, shared these photos with the former Gov. Bob Graham and his wife, Adele, as well as some campaign pins, posters and stickers through the years. Kellerman designed this pin when his daughter, Gwen, was running for governor.

Patricia Miller, of Vero Beach, shakes Sen. Bob Graham's hand after he signs her copy of his newly published book, "Intelligence matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia and the Failure of America's War on Terror," Dec. 21, 2004, at the Vero Beach Book Center. Graham, the former governor of Florida, has traveled the state to talk to people about his new book.

Florida Senator Bob Graham greets attendees of the Democratic National Convention at the Staples Center 15 August, 2000, in Los Angeles, California. Bob Graham, perhaps the most peculiar and popular politician of modern Florida history, died Tuesday. The Democratic two-term governor (1979-87) and three-term U.S. senator (1987-2005) was 87. He passed away at 8:30 p.m. of old age with his wife, Adele, and family by his side in a retirement community in Gainesville.

U.S. Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL), a candidate for president, along with family members, cheers in the staging area of the Iowa State Fair Parade August 6, 2003 in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. Graham, who has made the most heated and repeated criticisms of President Bush's handling of the Iraq war, is on a weeklong campaign tour of Iowa with his family. (Photo by Eric Francis/Getty Images)

U.S. Senator Bob Graham addresses supporters during the Florida Democratic Convention December 7, 2003 at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, FL. The Florida Democratic Party hosted presidential candidates campaigning for their party's nominee in the 2004 election. (Photo by Chris Livingston/Getty Images)

Florida Senator Bob Graham(2nd R) and Florida Representative Alcee Hastings(R) tour the Sacre Couer Church 12 October 1993 during a fact-finding tour of Haiti. Left is Father Nicolas, who is describing the death of Antoine Izmery, who was killed by gunmen in the church.

US President Bill Clinton (2R) speaks in 1998 to victims of a tornado that devastated their trailer park in Kissimmee, Florida. The president toured central Florida where tornados ravaged the area by what experts say is a consequence of the weather phenomenon called El Nino. With him are Fl Sen Bob Graham, (L), Florida Governor Lawton Chiles (2ndL), and US Attorney General Janet Reno (3rdL). Others are unidentified.

Commission Chairman former Sen. Bob Graham joins with other members of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism for a press conference on a new report on "Preventing Nuclear and Biological Terrorism Threats" at the U.S. Capitol December 3, 2008 in Washington, DC. Members of the commission were scheduled to brief Vice President-elect Biden and Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano on their findings later in the afternoon.

WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 08: (L-R) Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), ranking Republican member Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and former Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) participate in a news conference on Capitol Hill on September 8, 2009 in Washington, DC. During the news conference Senator Lieberman introduced the "Weapons of Mass Destruction Prevention and Preparedness Act of 2009" legislation.

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) makes a statement to the media as Co-Chair of BP Oil Spill Commission Bob Graham (L) listens at the Rose Garden of the White House June 1, 2010 in Washington, DC. Obama had his first meeting with the co-chairs of the commission investigating the deepwater oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico prior to his statement.

William Reilly (L) and former Sen. Bob Graham (R), co-chairmen of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, announce the findings of the commission's final report on January 11, 2011 in Washington, DC. The commission concluded that only "urgent reform" could prevent another environmental disaster similar to BP's blown out Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico.

Former Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL), co-chairman of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, testifies on Capitol Hill on March 16, 2011 in Washington, DC. The commission issued its report shortly before the one year anniversary of the Gulf Oil Spill on April 20, 2010.

Former U.S. Senator Bob Graham (D-FL) talks to reporters about a recently released section of the 2002 House Intelligence Committee inquiry into the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 during a news conference at the National Press Club August 31, 2016 in Washington, DC. Counter to the U.S. government's evaluation of the information, Graham claims that the 28-pages of previously classified information will 'show a strong link between the terrorists and the government of Saudi Arabia."