Arlen Specter | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-05

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Arlen Specter


00:01:41 1 Early life and education
00:03:14 1.1 Military career
00:03:37 1.2 Early legal career and personal life
00:04:25 2 Early political career
00:04:35 2.1 Involvement with the Warren Commission
00:05:36 2.2 His quests for political offices
00:07:05 3 Senate career
00:14:33 3.1 Committee assignments
00:15:08 4 Campaigns
00:15:49 4.1 1996 presidential bid
00:17:06 4.2 2004 campaign
00:18:14 4.3 2010 campaign
00:20:46 5 Political views
00:21:34 5.1 Abortion
00:22:03 5.2 LGBT issues
00:22:44 5.3 Gun control
00:23:03 5.4 Affirmative action
00:23:22 5.5 Tax cuts and minimum wage
00:23:51 5.6 Illegal immigration
00:24:24 5.7 Health care reform
00:24:33 5.7.1 Public option
00:25:00 5.7.2 Single-payer
00:25:18 5.7.3 Votes
00:25:57 5.8 Card check
00:26:32 5.9 Privacy; computers
00:28:02 5.10 Other
00:29:22 6 Electoral history
00:29:32 7 Post-senate career
00:30:03 7.1 Arlen Specter Center for Public Service at Philadelphia University
00:32:11 8 Illness and death
00:34:30 9 See also



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Arlen Specter (February 12, 1930 – October 14, 2012) was an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as United States Senator for Pennsylvania. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party. First elected in 1980, he represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate for 30 years.
Specter was born in Wichita, Kansas to emigrant Russian Jewish parents. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and served with the United States Air Force during the Korean War. Specter later graduated from Yale Law School and opened a law firm with Marvin Katz, who would later become a federal judge. Specter served as assistant counsel for the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy and helped devise the "single-bullet theory". In 1965, Specter was elected District Attorney of Philadelphia, a position that he would hold until 1973.
During his 30-year senate career, Specter staked out a spot in the political center. In 2006, he was selected by Time as one of America's Ten Best Senators. Specter lost his re-election bid in 2010 to Joe Sestak in the primary election, who then lost to Pat Toomey in the general election. Toomey succeeded Specter on January 3, 2011.
Diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in early 2005, he continued his work in the Senate while undergoing chemotherapy. He later died of complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on October 14, 2012.