John Paul Stevens, Former Supreme Court Justice, Dies at 99

John Paul Stevens, Former Supreme Court Justice, Dies at 99
John Paul Stevens at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 28 2014. William Thomas Cain/Getty Images
The Associated Press
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WASHINGTON—Former Justice John Paul Stevens, a Republican appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court, died on Tuesday at age 99, the court said in a statement.

Stevens, who retired from the court in 2010 at the age of 90—the second-oldest justice in the court’s history—died at a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, of complications from a stroke he suffered on Monday, the statement said.