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
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
Patrick Joseph Toomey Jr. is an American businessman and politician who served as a United States senator from Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he served three terms a
Arlen Specter
…Best Senators. Specter lost his 2010 re-election bid in the Democratic primary to former U.S. Navy vice admiral Joe Sestak, who then lost to Republican Pat Toomey in the general election. Toomey succeeded Specter on January 3, 2011. In 1993, Specter underwent a surgery to remove a brain tumor. In early 2005 he…
Toomey and his wife Kris Toomey in 1999
Toomey during the 108th Congress
Toomey speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in March 2014