Arlen Specter
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Arlen Specter (February 12, 1930 – October 14, 2012) was an American lawyer, poet, and politician who served as the United States Senator for Pennsylvania.
Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 to 2009, when he returned to the Democratic Party.
He served Pennsylvania for 30 years as the first senator elected in 1980. Specter was born in Wichita, Kansas, to migrant Russian Jewish parents.
He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and spent time with the US Air Force during the Korean War.
Specter later graduated from Yale Law School and opened a law practice with Marvin Katz, who would later become a federal judge.
Specter served as an assistant counsel for the Warren Commission probing John F. Kennedy's assassination and helped devise the "single-bullet theory."
Specter was elected District Attorney of Philadelphia in 1965, a position he held until 1973. Specter argued for a prominent role in the political center during his 30-year Senate tenure.
He was named by Time as one of America's Top Senators in 2006.
Specter's re-election bid in the Democratic primary to former US Navy vice admiral Joe Sestak, who then lost to Republican Pat Toomey in the general election in 2010.
On January 3, 2011, Toomey took over Specter's position. Diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in early 2005, he continued his work in the Senate while receiving chemotherapy.
On October 14, 2012, he died as a result of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma complications.
Early life and education
Specter was born in Wichita, Kansas, the youngest child of Lillie (née Shanin) and Harry Specter, who grew up in Cherkasy, Ukraine's Bachkuryne village. In his memoir, Passion for Truth, the Specter was Jewish, and he wrote that his father's family was the only Jewish family in the village. The family lived in Wichita, South Emporia Street, before transferring to Russell, Kansas, where he graduated from Russell High School in 1947. Russell is also the hometown of fellow politician Bob Dole (who graduated from Russell High School in 1941). According to the narrator, his father weighed items from his junkyard on a scale owned by Dole's father Doran Dole (who owned a granary). Morton and Kenny's brother Kenny were contemporaries and acquaintances, according to him.
During World War I, the Specter's father served in the United States infantry and was seriously wounded. Specter's father was a fruit peddler, a tailor, and a junkyard owner during the Great Depression. Arlen Specter first attended the University of Oklahoma after graduating from Russell High School. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in international affairs, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1951. Specter, who was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity while at Penn, was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. The family immigrated to Philadelphia when Shirley was 16 years old, according to a specter, since there were no other Jews in Russell.
He served stateside in the United States Air Force from 1951 to 1953 and was promoted to first lieutenant as an officer in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations during the Korean War.
He married Joan Levy in 1953. She was elected to one of the two allotted minority parties with large seats on the Philadelphia City Council in 1979. She served for four terms before being disqualified for re-election by Frank Rizzo, Jr. in 1995. Both parents had two children. Specter graduated from Yale Law School in 1956 while writing as editor of the Yale Law Journal. Specter & Katz, a Philadelphia civil rights judge who served as a Federal District Court Judge before his death in October 2010, became a law firm operated by Specter & Katz. "The Unicorn Killer" was a Specter who denoted Ira Einhorn. Specter served as an assistant district attorney for District Attorney James C. Crumlish, Jr., and was a member of the Democratic Party.
Early political career
Specter served on the Warren Commission, which prosecuted John F. Kennedy's assassination of John F. Kennedy, on the suggestion of Representative Gerald Ford, who was then one of the Commissioners, Specter was a member of the Warren Commission. He co-wrote the report of the "single bullet theory," which claimed that Kennedy's non-fatal wounds and wounds to Texas Governor John Connally were caused by the same bullet. This was a critical argument for the Warren Commission, because if the two were wounded by separate bullets in such a short time frame, it would have shown the presence of a second assassination and therefore a conspiracy. In 1979, the United States House Select Committee on Assassination released their report, stating that their "forensic pathology panel's findings were consistent with the Warren Commission's so-called single bullet theory."
Specter ran for Philadelphia district attorney against his former employer, incumbent James C. Crumlish, Jr., in 1965. However, Peter Camiel, the city's Democratic leaders, did not want Specter as their candidate, so he changed parties and ran as a Republican, prompting Crumlish to say "Benedict Arlen." Specter defeated Crumlish by 36,000 votes. Despite being a promoter of capital punishment as a prosecutor, he challenged the validity of the Pennsylvania death penalty statute in 1972.
He was the Republican Party standard bearer in 1967, along with City Controller Tom Gola, campaigning against Democratic incumbent James Tate in Philadelphia. "We need THESE guys to watch THOSE guys," and "They're younger, they're tougher, and nobody owns them." He served two-years as Philadelphia's district attorney, but was denied his opportunity for a third term by noted criminal defense attorney Emmett Fitzpatrick in 1973.
Specter ran in the Republican primary for the US Senate in 1976, but was defeated by John Heinz. Dick Thornburgh defeated him in the primary for Governor of Pennsylvania in 1978. Specter ran for the Senate again in 1980 after several years in private practice with Dechert's Price & Rhoads. This time, he won and took office in 1981.
Senate career
He cosponsored an amendment to the Fair Housing Act of 1968, which prohibited discrimination in the selling, advertising, and financing of the country's housing. The change boosted the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity's ability to enforce the Fair Housing Act and expanded the protected classes to include disabled people and families with children. Specter debating President Bill Clinton's impeachment in 1998 and 1999. Specter defiantly argued that Clinton did not receive a fair trial. Specter then cited Scots law to deliver a verdict of "not proved" on Clinton's impeachment. However, his appeal was not recorded as "not guilty" in Senate records.
Specter was one of four Senate Republicans to vote in favor of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in October 1999. The treaty was supposed to prohibit underground nuclear testing, and it was the first major international security agreement to be defeated in the Senate since Versailles' Treaty of Versailles.
The Iraq War was declared by a Specter on October 11, 2002.
He was named the "Most Work For" in a 2002 PoliticsPA feature article honoring politicians with yearbook superlatives. Even though he was regarded as a "rich Republican partisan," the Pennsylvania Report, a subscription-based political newspaper, referred to Specter as one of the "vanishing breed of Republican moderates" in 2003, and referred to him as "Pennsylvania first' middle of-the-road politics" among Republican moderates.
Specter stepped into the public spotlight shortly after the 2004 election as a result of controversies surrounding his Supreme Court's appointment.At a press conference, he stated:
Activist organizations interpreted his remarks as an alert sent sent by President George W. Bush to nominating Supreme Court justices who opposed the Roe vs. Wade decision. The speculator denied that his remarks were a forecast, not a warning. He worked with several conservative senators and was recommended for the Judiciary Committee's chairmanship in late 2004 based on promises he gave them. He assumed the role as the 109th Congress convened on January 4, 2005.
A revision of the USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law on March 9, 2006. It simplified the recruitment of interim presidents in the United States. Attorneys, as Specter explained during his chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee, used the word attorney. The change allowed the Bush administration to install interim U.S. attorneys without term limits and without confirmation by the Senate. In 2006, the Bush administration used the legislation to install at least eight interim lawyers. The alterations were made by staff member Brett Tolman, according to the Specter. For more details, see the denial of the United States. The attorneys are in the midst of an investigation.
Bush's wiretapping of Americans without warrants was highly critical by the narrator. "Inappropriate" and "definitely and categorically incorrect" when the tale first broke, he called the attempt "inappropriate" and "clearly and categorically inaccurate." He said he planned to hold hearings into the matter early in 2006, and ordered Alberto Gonzales to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee to explain the procedures. (However, the Specter refused to order Gonzales to testify under oath.) Although Specter speculated that such a result might have occurred on January 15, 2006, he suggested impeachment and criminal prosecution as potential remedies if Bush was to have broken the rules.
Specter said on Fox News on April 9, 2006, "The President of the United States owes a concrete explanation to the American people." However, he did vote for the 2008 revisions to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which placed federal electronic searches almost entirely within the executive branch.
Specter wrote to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell about the demise of New England Patriots "Spygate" tapes during the 2007–2008 National Football League season. Specter, a devout and long-time Philadelphia Eagles fan, wondered if there was a correlation between the tapes and the Eagles' Super Bowl victory over the Eagles in 2005. Goodell said on February 1, 2008 that the tapes were destroyed because "they announced what I already knew about the situation."Specter released a follow-up statement:
Starting in 2007, Specter sponsored legislation to fix a long-standing anomaly in American law that banned a majority of U.S. Armed Forces service members from appealing their convictions to the US Supreme Court.
Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Hillary Clinton (D-NY), and Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) cosponsored the Equal Justice for United States Military Personnel Act of 2007. However, the bill died in the 110th Congress, and Specter co-sponsored the bill in the 2009 111th Congress. Specter was embroiled in a controversy in December 2008 when he began "Polish jokes" at New York's Rainbow Room when speaking at the Commonwealth Club's annual meeting.
On February 10, 2009, a Specter voted in favor of the Senate's version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; he was one of only three Republicans to leave the party and endorse the bill, which was universally supported by Democrats. Many in the Republican mainstream started calling for his deposing from office as a result of his love.
Specter was instrumental in ensuring that the bill was allotted an additional $10 billion to the National Institutes of Health over the next two years. Jason Altmire, a Pennsylvania congressman, joined Pennsylvania senator Jason Altmire in leading a congressional hearing looking at whether the federal government should fund a national vaccine production center more than ten years before the global Covid-19 pandemic outbreak.
Specter changed to the Democratic Party in late April 2009, putting Democrats on the "precipice" of a 60-seat majority in the face of a fierce Republican primary. His Democratic colleagues denied him seniority on Senate panels.
Specter proposed the reversal of the Defense of Marriage Act in October 2009, which he had supported in 1996. Specter introduced a bill in November 2009 that mandated television televising Supreme Court hearings, and she explained that "the Supreme Court makes pronouncements on constitutional and federal laws that have immediate implications on American citizens." "Those rights will be greatly enhanced by televising the Court's oral arguments so that the public can see and hear the issues discussed."
After his primary loss to Joe Sestak, Specter's career in the Senate ended on January 3, 2011. He was defeated by Republican U.S. Representative Pat Toomey, who won the general election against Sestak.
Specter served as chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence from 1995, when Republicans took power of the Senate, until 1997, when he became Chairman of the Committee on Veterans Affairs. He chaired the committee from 2001 to 2005, as Republicans controlled the Senate at the time. He chaired the Judiciary Committee from 2005 to 2007.
Post-Senate career
Specter taught a course on the relationship between Congress and the Supreme Court in the fall of 2011, focusing on separation of powers and confirmation processes. "You should take before you die" is the National Jurist's pick of the "23 professors" for this course.
Specter donated nearly 2,700 boxes of historical papers and memorabilia from his time as a Philadelphia district attorney to his service as a United States senator, as well as information about his service as assistant counsel on the Warren Commission on December 21, 2011. The University of Pittsburgh will house, organize, and manage the collection. The universities will collaborate on related education initiatives that would eventually have access to the archives on both directions of the state. The Specter Collection will also benefit The Arlen Specter Center for Public Policy at Philadelphia University.
The center will be a nonpartisan group dedicated to enhancing public policy issues both internationally and nationally. The center will strive to achieve these objectives by funding for study, educational instruction, and exhibits inspired in part by senator's career and the permanent collection of his historic papers. The center will be operated by the Paul J. Gutman Library at Philadelphia University, which is located nearby on campus.
Parts of Roxboro House go back to 1799. In 1810, the Georgian period house made of frame and clapboard was expanded. Roxboro House was owned by Dr. Caspar Wistar, who wrote the first American anatomy textbook in 1811. In honor of Wistar's presidency and his colleague, Thomas Nuttall, a well-known botanist, who named the Wisteria vine after him, the American Philosophical Society and his friend, Thomas Nuttall, named the Wisteria vine after him. The Philadelphia Historical Commission added this house to its list of registered buildings in 1965 (No. 1). (141) 148 people. The house was being used as a bed and breakfast establishment prior to the university's purchase of the property in 1998.
In Philadelphia, US Squash revealed that it was constructing the Arlen Specter US Squash Center. In 2019, the Arlen Specter US Squash Center was completed.