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Arlen Specter, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania 1961 – 2011, has died. Specter was 82 years old. Specter is survived by his wife, Joan, his son Stephen, his son Shanin, daughter-in-law Tracey, and 4 granddaughters. Specter was Jewish and over his lifetime belonged to several different synagogues. His granddaughters all attended a Conservative Jewish day school in the Philadelphia suburbs.
Specter survived brain cancer and other maladies, but finally succombed to non-Hodgkins Lymphoma Sunday morning, October 14. Specter died in his Philadelphia home.
