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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, [1][2][3] then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party. More @Wikipedia
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- Former Senator Arlen Specter Dies At 82 - NPRSpecter 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 ...
- An Oral History of Arlen Specter - Philadelphia MagazineAfter four decades in public life, Arlen Specter is still as brash, complicated and unpredictable as ever. Here, an oral history of the career of one of the country's most famous (and infamous...
- Arlen Specter dies at 82 | Obituaries | phillytrib.comHARRISBURG, Pa. — Arlen Specter, who spent much of his pugnacious 30-year career in the U.S. Senate warning of the dangers of political intolerance, lost a battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
- Arlen Specter Dead; Sen. Bucked Both Parties - ABC NewsArlen Specter, the former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania who stunned both parties on Capitol Hill in 2009 when he announced he would switch his party allegiance to Democrat after 42 years as a ...
- Timeline: Arlen Specter's career - POLITICOMajor 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:...
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