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Arlen Specter Net Worth: Arlen Specter is a United States Senator who has a net worth of $30 million. Born February 12, 1930 in Wichita, Kansas, he was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 to 2009, returning to the Democratic Party in 2009. Spector is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. He later graduated from Yale Law School and opened a law firm with Marvin Katz, who became a federal judge. He is married to American businesswoman and politician Joan Levy, and they have two sons. Levy served four terms on the Philadelphia Council until she was defeated for re-election by Frank Rizzo, Jr. in 1995. Specter’s stance on abortion is one he personally opposes but supports a woman’s right to choose. His stance on gay rights included support for some LGBT rights, and he voted to outlaw job discrimination based on sexual orientation, but opposed same-sex marriage. He strongly opposed gun control, voted against the Brady bill, introduced background checks at gun shows, banned assault weapons and pistol trigger locks. Regardless of which party he was at the time, his voting record was at least 50 percent wrong on the Democratic side. Arlen Specter announced in 2005 that he had been diagnosed with advanced Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of cancer. Specter eventually died on October 14, 2012, at the age of 82, from complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
