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Why Is John Paul Stevens So Successful
Dalton Cuthbert
Per. 1 John Paul Stevens John Paul Stevens born April 20, 1920 in Chicago. He was the Youngest of four boys, his grandfather ran the Illinois life insurance company which made a lot of money. and his dad built the opulent Stevens hotel. In his teens he saw his family's good luck turn around when his dad was convicted of embezzling money to keep the hotel. Later on Stevens told the news that his dad was wrongly convicted.
“Stevens ended up graduating from the university of Chicago in 1941 where he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served in the World war 2 as a cryptographer”(Biography). Soon after the war, Stevens went to the northwestern university school of law, after graduating at the

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