John Shorter Stevens (May 30, 1933 – April 23, 2019) was an American politician and lawyer from North Carolina. Stevens was born in

Asheville, North Carolina Asheville ( ) is a city in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. Located at the confluence of the French Broad River, French Broad and Swannanoa River, Swannanoa rivers, it is the county seat of Buncombe County. It is the most populou ...

, on May 30, 1933. He attended Christ School and the

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, as well as its

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. After two years of military service with the

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, Stevens began practicing law in 1961, and later cofounded the firm Roberts & Stevens via merger. Stevens was a member of the Democratic Party and elected to four terms within the

North Carolina House of Representatives The North Carolina House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the North Carolina General Assembly. The House is a 120-member body led by a Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, Speaker of the House, who holds powers si ...

, serving between 1969 and 1975. In June 2013, Stevens was elected into the North Carolina Bar Association's General Practice Hall of Fame. He retired as a lawyer in January 2019. Stevens was also a historian and wrote a book: ''A Short Buncombe County History'', that was published in the spring of 2019. Stevens died of cancer at home in Asheville on April 23, 2019, aged 85.

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