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Justice John Paul Stevens was born in Chicago on April 20, 1920. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1941 and received his law degree from Northwestern University in 1947. Admitted to the bar in that same year, John Paul Stevens served as a clerk for Justice Wiley B. Rutledge and then joined a Chicago law firm specializing in antitrust law. John Paul Stevens would practice law from 1947 to 1970 in Chicago, taught at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University during the 1950s, and held several appointments on national commissions regarding antitrust and the monopoly of power . President Richard M. Nixon appointed John Paul Stevens to the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Seventh Circuit in 1970. President Gerald R. Ford nominated Stevens to the Supreme Court of the United States on December 1, 1975 and the U.S. Senate confirmed his appointed on December 17, 1975.
Bibliography:
"John Paul Stevens," Encyclopedia Britannica, from Encyclopedia Britannica Online: http://search.eb.com/eb/article?eu=71467 [Accessed June 14, 2004]
The Justice John Paul Stevens Collection consists of one videotaped interview of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. D.J.R. Bruckner, Vice President for Public Affairs at the University of Chicago conducted the interview at a Chicago banquet in 1976. The collection also includes one letter from Bill Lindsay, Acting Director of the Illinois Information Service regarding the contents of the videotape.
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