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Arlen Specter (February 12, 1930 – October 14, 2012) was an American lawyer, author and politician who served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2011. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party.
Oct 15, 2012 · WASHINGTON — Arlen Specter, the irascible senator from Pennsylvania who was at the center of many of the Senate’s most divisive legal battles — from the Supreme Court nominations of Robert...
May 13, 2024 · Arlen Specter was an American lawyer and politician who was a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania (1981–2011). Originally a Democrat, he became a Republican in the 1960s before switching back to the Democratic Party in 2009. Specter, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, was raised in Russell, Kansas.
Oct 14, 2012 · Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who embodied a vanishing breed of liberal Republicanism before switching to the Democratic Party at the twilight of his political career, died Sunday after a long...
Oct 14, 2012 · Former Sen. Arlen Specter, one of the most influential senators of the last half-century, died Sunday from complications of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He was 82.
Oct 14, 2012 · US Senator Arlen Specter, whose political career took him from Philadelphia City Hall to the US Congress, has died after another bout with cancer.
Oct 15, 2012 · Former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter — who served as a Republican in the Senate from 1980 until he switched allegiance to the Democratic Party in 2009 and lost his primary the following year —...
