1998:
Practices Private Law
Senator Specter passes away.
1964:
1951:
Graduates University of Pennsylvania with degree in International Relations
December 22, 2010:
1991:
Wins Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat and joins new Republican majority in the chamber.
Runs successfully on Republican ticket for Philadelphia district attorney even though he was a Democrat.
1951 1953:
Helps defeat President Ronald Reagan's Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork.
January 2, 2011:
Senate term officially ends.
February 2009:
U.S. Air Force, serves as second lieutenant, Office of Special Investigations.
Specter loses Senate Democratic Party primary.
Elected to second term in Senate.
2005:
1992:
Born in Wichita, Kansas, to Harry and Lillian Specter. Raised in Russell, Kansas.
Serves on the Warren Commission, which concludes that a single bullet from a lone assassin killed President John F. Kennedy.
1995:
2004:
1969:
Aggressively questions Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination hearing.
1967:
April 28, 2009:
1934:
1965:
October 14, 2012:
1980:
1953:
Loses election for Philadelphia mayor.
Begins two-year term as chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee.
Named deputy sheriff of Sedgewick County, documented in “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” as youngest deputy sheriff in United States history.
1986:
Loses GOP gubernatorial primary.
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