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John Paul Stevens: Biography
John Paul Stevens, the 101st Justice to serve on the supreme court of
the United States, and the first appointed by President Gerald R. Ford. John
Paul Stevens became a member of the high court in December of 1975. Stevens, a
middle aged man, with a reputation as a sharp-minded, hardworking lawyer, an ....
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.... He worked with a group assigned to
break Japanese codes. for doing this, he was awarded the Bronze Star. After he
returned to Chicago, (at the end of the war) he enrolled himself into
Northwestern University School of Law to earn his J.D. degree, where he
graduated first in his class. Not long after that, he was admitted into the
Order of the Coif and the Phi Delta Phi law society.
From 1947 to 48, Stevens spent the year as a clerk to supreme court
justice Wiley Rutledge. After that, he joined his first law firm, Poppenhausen,
Johnston, Thompson & Raymond. A Chicago ....
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