John Shorter Stevens

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

Stevens was a member of the Democratic Party and elected to four terms within the North Carolina House of Representatives, serving between 1969 and 1975.

[1][2] In June 2013, Stevens was elected into the North Carolina Bar Association's General Practice Hall of Fame.

[4] Stevens was also a historian and wrote a book: A Short Buncombe County History, that was published in the spring of 2019.

[4] Stevens died of cancer at home in Asheville on April 23, 2019, aged 85.