What is Arlen Specter?
{{Infobox Senator | name=Arlen Specter | image=Arlen Specter, official Senate photo portrait.jpg | imagesize= | jr/sr=Senior Senator <!-- will not display, but needs to be here for now: see [[Template talk: Infobox Officeholder]] --> | state=[[Pennsylvania]] | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] <br/>(1951–1965,<ref>{{cite news |title=Upset in Philadelphia |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 2, 1965 |url=http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/flash/politics/20090414_SPECTER/1965Elected.pdf |access-date=April 28, 2009 }}</ref> April 28, 2009–October 14, 2012) <br/>[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] <br/>(1966 – April 28, 2009) | term_start=January 3, 1981 | term_end=January 3, 2011 | preceded=[[Richard Schweiker]] | succeeded= [[Pat Toomey]] | order2=Chairman of the [[United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence|Senate Select Committee on Intelligence]] | term_start2=January 3, 1995 | term_end2=January 3, 1997 | preceded2=[[Dennis DeConcini]] | succeeded2=[[Richard Shelby]] | order3=Chairman of the [[United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs|Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs]] | term_start3=January 3, 1997 | term_end3=January 3, 2001 | preceded3=[[Alan K. Simpson|Alan Simpson]] | succeeded3=[[Jay Rockefeller]] | term_start4=January 20 | term_end4=June 6, 2001 | preceded4=[[Jay Rockefeller]] | succeeded4=[[Jay Rockefeller]] | term_start5=January 3, 2003 | term_end5=January 3, 2005 | preceded5=[[Jay Rockefeller]] | succeeded5=[[Larry Craig]] | order6=Chairman of the [[United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|Senate Committee on the Judiciary]] | term_start6=January 3, 2005 | term_end6=January 3, 2007 | preceded6=[[Orrin Hatch]] | succeeded6=[[Patrick Leahy]] | order7=19th | office7=District Attorney of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | term_start7=January 3, 1966 | term_end7=January 7, 1974 | predecessor7=[[James C. Crumlish, Jr.|James Crumlish]] | successor7=[[F. Emmett Fitzpatrick|Emmitt Fitzpatrick]] | committees=[[United States Senate Committee on Ap