Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (AP) -- for most of his 30 years of Pennsylvania longest the United States senator, the outstanding in congress gentle, spector is republicans, but is often have differences and the republican leadership.
He helped end the federal appeals judge Robert H · bok, President Ronald Reagan nominated to the Supreme Court. For many decades after that, he is a only three republicans in congress voted to support the President Obama's economic stimulus.
He and his party's rest, hardly a surprise: as a democrat, he began his political career ended it as a, too.
During this period, he in the United States a few big political events heart. His rise in the 1960 s, as a lawyer assistant warren commission, where the President John f. Kennedy was assassinated ChanDanTou theory. He came to the senate in 1980, Reagan landslide and blog and clarence Thomas in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing is an important voice.
Ghost died Sunday at his home in Philadelphia non-hodgkin's lymphoma complications died, his son said ShaNing. He is 82. For many years, the ghost has played two games previously and Hodgkin's lymphoma, overcome the brain tumor, cardiac arrest heart bypass surgery survive.
Intellectual property rights and stubborn, spector took the lead in the wide range of problems and no stranger dispute.
In his last major political behavior of one of the phantom surprised fellow senator in April 2009, when he announced that he join the Democrats. He said he "more and more contradictions and republican concept, he said:" although he said, the Democrats can't expect he is "automatic 60 votes", give them a filibuster prove most.
He also believes that he is not for the republican won the sixth, his frank, he returned to the democratic cause is packaged in a powerful television advertising, his main rival, the U.S. Congressman Joe xie stark, who finalized as a political opportunist responsibility.
"I in the party's change, make me to elected," spector said, in the television news picture in advertising use.
The announcer at the end of the advertisement says, "spector change parties save a job - he, not you."
The Democrats choose xie stark, retired rear admiral, in 2010 the main ghost above, ended his 20 years of service. In the general election and 2%, thanks stark lost spector seat, a conservative republican Congressman pat Toomey's.
Ghost rise in the 1960 s, as a positive Philadelphia prosecutors and in his time of the warren commission.
In 1987, spector help prevent blog nominated the Supreme Court, for he won the conservative the enemy still hate to refer to as "borked such that." But four years later, spector was criticized for his tough question Anita mui mountain in Thomas Supreme Court nomination hearing, and accused her of making "plane perjury liberal". The national trial, TV, provoke women's groups and almost cost him in 1992 he seat.
Spector the credit to help defeat President Clinton's national health care plan - complexity, which he stressed that in a huge chart, hang on the wall in his office after many years - and help leaders to survey to the gulf war syndrome, give a name collect experience of war veterans, including fatigue, memory loss, pain and sleep difficult symptoms. Iran's door after the scandal, ghost promote legislation, created the supervisory long CIA, then exposed Aldrich company as the Soviet union spy Ames.
But he is not afraid of dropping his republican colleagues.
Ghost powerful appropriations committee senior members, promote increase funding for stem cell research, breast cancer and alzheimer's disease, and support a number of labor in the leading republican congressional support measures. He also doggedly seek federal funding local project, in his hometown.
In 1995, he rolled out running for President, condemn religious conservatives "edge", give play to the role of too big, the party's set agenda. Spector, who was a Jew, before exit, first of all, mainly because of the downturn fund-raising activities.
Spector's grumpy independent caught up to him in 2004. He narrowly escaped the Toomey 17000 votes in more than 1.4 million vote republican main challenge. He went to the organized labor, and traditional democratic constituencies help, easily won the election.
Spector in 2005 were diagnosed with Ⅳ stage Hodgkin's lymphoma, lymphatic system of cancer. Published diagnosis and his trademark strong unyielding will, spector said: "I have to cope with brain tumor, bypass open-heart surgery and many tough political opponents, I want to beat it".
"Spector has always been a fighter," Obama said in a statement on Sunday. "From his days as a prosecutor stamping out corruption in Philadelphia, he in the senate service 30 years, Allen is a very independent - never put the party's ideological person in advance, he was selected for the service. He brought the same toughness and determination of his personal struggle."
Ghost wrote his illness in the 2008 book, "never give up: in the senate against cancer," he said, he wants to let the other faced a similar crisis ", you know, they are not alone."
Cancer handed him: "mortality" and "value-added humble attitude formed distinctive appearance," ghost told the Associated Press.
Was born in wichita, Kansas on February 12, 1930, spector spent the summer work Russell, Kansas, where he met another future senator Bob dole - in his father's dump. The vigorous development of dump in the second world war, spector's father gave him four children go to college.
Spector left the university of Kansas in 1947, because the university of Kansas, where he led the best of friends, no jewish association. In 1956 he graduated from the university of Pennsylvania in 1951, Yale university law school. From 1951 to 1953, he served as air force.




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