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****-- Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter dies --*PHILADELPHIA - Arlen Specter, who served five consecutive terms in the U.S. Senate, died Sunday at his home in Philadelphia. He was 82.
The New York Times said Specter died of complications from non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
Specter was first elected to serve Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate in 1980 and served five consecutive terms. A longtime moderate Republican, he started his political career in the 1960s as a Democrat and switched back to the Democratic Party in 2009. He was defeated in the Democratic primary in 2010.
Specter served for 30 years on the Senate Judiciary Committee beginning in 1981, including as chairman from 2005 to 2007, and participated in the confirmation hearings of 14 U.S. Supreme Court nominees, according to his biography on the University of Pennsylvania Law School website, where he served as an adjunct faculty member.
"Arlen Specter was always a fighter," President Barack Obama said Sunday in a statement.
"From his days stamping out corruption as a prosecutor in Philadelphia to his three decades of service in the Senate, Arlen was fiercely independent -- never putting party or ideology ahead of the people he was chosen to serve. He brought that same toughness and determination to his personal struggles, using his own story to inspire others."
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