The 1967 Philadelphia mayoral election was held on November 7, 1967. Incumbent mayor James Tate narrowly defeated Republican challenger Arlen Specter in the general election.
James H. J. Tate, Mayor of Philadelphia
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Arlen Specter was an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as a United States senator from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2011. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from
1967 Philadelphia mayoral election
…The 1967 Philadelphia mayoral election was held on November 7, 1967. Incumbent mayor James Tate narrowly defeated Republican challenger Arlen Specter in the general election. In the Democratic primary, Tate successfully fended off a challenge by Alexander Hemphill, who had the backing of Philadelphia…
Official portrait, c. 2007
Specter reproducing the assumed alignment of the single bullet theory. The subsequent revelation that Texas Governor John Connally's seat in the Presidential limousine had been elevated with respect to John Kennedy's corroborated this theory.
Specter with Martin Luther King Jr.
Specter greeting President Richard Nixon in 1971