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John Paul Stevens
John Paul Stevens
(born April 20, 1920) is a retired
associate justice
of the
Supreme Court of the United States
who served from December 19, 1975 until his retirement on June 29, 2010. At the time of his retirement, he was the oldest Justice then serving, the second-oldest serving Justice in the history of the Court, and the third
longest-serving US Supreme Court Justice in history
. He was nominated by President
Gerald Ford
to replace the Court's longest-serving justice,
William O. Douglas
. Stevens is widely considered to have been on the
liberal
side of the Court at the time of his retirement. Stevens served with three
Chief Justices
(
Warren E. Burger
,
William Rehnquist
, and
John G. Roberts
).
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