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At his death, what record did John Paul Stevens hold among Supreme Court justices?
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John Paul Stevens served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1975 to 2010, making him the longest-lived Supreme Court justice in American history. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 20, 1920, and graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1947. He was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Gerald Ford in 1975 and retired in 2010.
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