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Nov 9, 2009 · Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is among the most famous of the U.S. Supreme Court justices. Born to a prominent Boston family, Holmes was wounded at the Civil War battles of Ball’s Bluff,...
Feb 25, 2022 · Robert Longley. Published on February 25, 2022. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841—March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. One of the most often cited and influential Supreme Court justices in history, Holmes is noted for his defense of the ...
Aug 8, 2023 · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was a civil libertarian who protected the First Amendment from encroachments, particularly during and after World War I.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., (born March 8, 1841, Boston, Mass.—died March 6, 1935, Washington, D.C.), U.S. jurist, legal historian, and philosopher. He was the son of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Amelia Lee Jackson, daughter of a Massachusetts supreme court justice.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. came from an illustrious family and his contributions throughout his life added distinction to an otherwise distinguished group. Holmes graduated from Harvard and was selected class poet in 1861. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Massachusetts Twentieth Volunteers. Holmes was wounded three times in the war.
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. joined the U.S. Supreme Court on December 8, 1902, replacing Justice Horace Gray. Holmes was born on March 8, 1841 in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was a famous doctor and writer who exposed Holmes to the brilliant minds in the Boston area at an early age.
Justice of the Supreme Court. In that long span of years on the Supreme Court he became acknowledged as one of the most notable jurists of the age—in the opinion of many the foremost.
