1998 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania
The 1998 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held November 3, 1998. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Arlen Specter won re-election to a fourth term.
1998 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania
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 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party. First elected in 1980, he was the longest-serving senator from Pennsylvania, having represented the state for 30 years.
Specter 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