Arlen Specter

Arlen Specter, Former U.S. Senator, Dead at 82
Arlen Specter, Former U.S. Senator, Dead at 82
Arlen Specter, Former U.S. Senator, Dead at 82
Arlen Specter, the bristly former Republican senator from Pennsylvania who often made headlines by playing the political center and confounding Republican colleagues in the Senate, died today at age 82. According to Specter's family, his death was due to complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.