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John Paul Stevens
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States · 1970–1975
John Paul Stevens , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Senate voted 98–0 on the nomination on Dec 17, 1975 (). John Paul Stevens was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1975 to 2010. He was the second-oldest and fourth-longest-serving justice in U.S. Supreme Court history. At the time of his death in 2019 at age 99, he was the longest-lived Supreme Court justice ever.
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Positions
- Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States1975-12-19–2010-06-29
Senate confirmation votes
- An associate justice of the supreme court
94th Congress · 98–0 · Dec 17, 1975
Education
- University of ChicagoB.A., 1941
- Northwestern University School of Law (now Pritzker School of Law)J.D., 1947
Career
U.S. Naval Reserve lieutenant commander, 1942-1945; Law clerk, Hon. Wiley Rutledge, Supreme Court of the United States, 1947-1948; Private practice, Chicago, Illinois, 1948-1970; Lecturer, Northwestern University School of Law, 1950-1954; Associate counsel, Subcommittee on the Study of Monopoly Power, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, 1951; Member, Attorney General's Committee to Study Antitrust Laws, U.S. Department of Justice, 1953-1955; Lecturer, University of Chicago School of Law, 1954-1958; Presiding officer, Judicial Conference of the United States, 2005
Biography
John Paul Stevens was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1975 to 2010. He was the second-oldest and fourth-longest-serving justice in U.S. Supreme Court history. At the time of his death in 2019 at age 99, he was the longest-lived Supreme Court justice ever.
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