Arlen Specter, American lieutenant and politician (born 1930)

Arlen Specter

American lawyer and politician (1930–2012)

Arlen Specter 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. First elected…