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- NAME: John Paul Stevens
- OCCUPATION: Supreme Court Justice
- BIRTH DATE: April 20, 1920 (Age: 93)
- EDUCATION: University of Chicago, Northwestern University School of Law
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Chicago, Illinois
- ZODIAC SIGN: Taurus
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John Paul Stevens was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1975. In 2008 he renounced the death penalty as unconstitutional.
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John Paul Stevens was born April 20, 1920 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1970 he was appointed circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals. In 1975, he was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Although he was expected to serve as a conservative counterbalance to the remnants of the liberal court of Earl Warren, he was an independently minded justice with a moderately liberal position on the court.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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