Arlen Specter dead at 82
By Joe Sterling, CNN
updated 4:24 PM EDT, Sun October 14, 2012
(CNN) -- Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who embodied a dying breed of liberal Republicanism before switching to the Democratic Party at the twilight of his political career, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, his family announced.
Specter died of complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at his home in Philadelphia, his family said. He was 82.
Specter served five terms as a Republican senator and switched political affiliation in 2009.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/14/politics/obit-specter/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
By Joe Sterling, CNN
updated 4:24 PM EDT, Sun October 14, 2012
(CNN) -- Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who embodied a dying breed of liberal Republicanism before switching to the Democratic Party at the twilight of his political career, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, his family announced.
Specter died of complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at his home in Philadelphia, his family said. He was 82.
Specter served five terms as a Republican senator and switched political affiliation in 2009.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/14/politics/obit-specter/index.html?hpt=hp_t2