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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...
Nov 14, 2013 · In this exclusive interview with Arlen Specter, the lawyer who investigated the physical facts, you get in precise detail what the evidence proves about that fateful day in Dallas three years ago.
Oct 14, 2012 · Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania died at age 82 of complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on Sunday morning at his home in Philadelphia, his family said.
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 · 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 —...
Oct 14, 2012 · Former senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, one of the nation’s most durable political figures who during three decades in the Senate became known for his command of constitutional law, died of...
Oct 15, 2012 · Specter was one of the most influential senators of the past half century, but shortly before his death of cancer at age 82, he turned to stand-up comedy, poking fun at fellow politicians like ...
Oct 14, 2012 · Major events in the career of former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, who died Sunday in Philadelphia at the age of 82: - 1959: Hired as an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia. - 1964:...
