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    Arlen Specter

    American politician
  1. Early life and education. Specter was born in Wichita, Kansas, the youngest child of Lillie (née Shanin) and Harry Specter, who grew up in the Bachkuryne village of Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. Specter was Jewish, [8] and wrote in his memoir, Passion for Truth, that his father's family was the only Jewish family in the village. [9] .

  2. May 13, 2024 · Specter, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, was raised in Russell, Kansas. In 1951 he received a bachelors degree in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania. Specter attained the rank of second lieutenant while serving (1951–53) with the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations during the Korean War. He later ...

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  3. 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 H ...

  4. 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...

  5. Dec 10, 2012 · Famed as a student debater, trained as a lawyer, introduced to politics as a Philadelphia prosecutor, elected to the US Senate, and brought to national prominence as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Specters interests were hardly confined to science and health.

  6. Oct 14, 2012 · By Philip Rucker. October 14, 2012 at 1:09 p.m. EDT. 0. Former senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, one of the nation’s most durable political figures who during three decades in the Senate...

  7. Mar 3, 2011 · During his five consecutive terms in the Senate, Specter served on the Senate Judiciary Committee, including as chairman from 2005 to 2007; he was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence from 1995 to 1997 and was a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. In 2010, Specter lost his run for re-election.

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