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Arlen Specter

American lawyer and politician
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Arlen Specter (born February 12, 1930, Wichita, Kansas, U.S.—died October 14, 2012, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 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. In 1951 he received a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania. Specter...

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