Arlen Specter was a United States Senator from 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 his state for 30 years in the Senate. Specter w...
U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, 3 January 1981-3 January 2011. Lost the 2010 primary election for renomination.
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Served in the United States Air Force from 1951-1953.
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On February 16, 2005, Specter announced that he had been diagnosed with an advanced form of Hodgkin's disease. the advanced form, Specter continued working during chemotherapy. He ended treatment on July 22, 2005.
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He mounted an unsuccessful campaign for mayor of Philadelphia in 1973. He was defeated in the 1976 Republican Primary for U.S. Senate by John Heinz and in the 1978 primary for Governor of Pennsylvania, losing to Dick Thornburgh.
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He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951 and from Yale Law School in 1956. He passed the Pennsylvania Bar in 1956.
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Title
Year
Status
Character
Piers Morgan Tonight
2012
TV Series
Himself
America Live
2012
TV Series
Himself
Advise & Dissent
2012
Documentary
Aftermath with William Shatner
2010
TV Series documentary
Himself
Hannity
2010
TV Series
Himself
Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer
2008
TV Series
Himself
Real Time with Bill Maher
2008
TV Series
Himself
The Daily Show
2000-2008
TV Series
Himself
Howard Stern on Demand
2008
TV Series
Himself
Loose Change: Final Cut
2007
Video documentary
Himself
The Michael Smerconish Show on MSNBC
2007
TV Series
Himself
Face the Nation
2006
TV Series
Himself
This Week
2006
TV Series
Himself
Meet the Press
2005-2006
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Senator, Pennsylvania
Now
2006
TV Series documentary
Himself
Paula Zahn Now
2004
TV Series
Himself
The Campaign Trail to the Road to the White House: Storytellers
2000
TV Special
Himself
Dennis Miller Live
1996
TV Series
Himself
Howard Stern
1995
TV Series
Himself
The Politics of Cancer
1994
Documentary
Himself
The Men Who Killed Kennedy
1988
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - Councillor for Warren Commission
The Mike Douglas Show
1966
TV Series
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Mike & Mike
2015
TV Series
Himself - U.S. Senator
The Sixties
2014
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - Member Warren Commission
Frontline
2014
TV Series documentary
Himself - Senator, Pennsylvania
Glenn Beck
2009
TV Series
Himself - Pennsylvania Senator
Frame 313: The JFK Assassination Theories
2008
Documentary
Himself - Senator, Pennsylvania
Oswald's Ghost
2007
Documentary
Himself
14 Women
2007
Documentary
Himself
Inside Deep Throat
2005
Documentary
Himself - US Senator (R-PA) (uncredited)
Hardball with Chris Matthews
2004
TV Series
Himself
Beyond 'JFK': The Question of Conspiracy
1992
TV Movie documentary
Himself (uncredited)
Known for movies
The Men Who Killed Kennedy (1988) as Himself - Councillor for Warren Commission