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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932.
Jun 14, 2024 · Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, U.S. legal historian and philosopher who advocated judicial restraint. He stated the concept of “clear and present danger” as the only basis for limiting the right of freedom of speech.
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, Antietam...
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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) was a pivotal figure in the maturation of the American legal system. Holmes, who entered Harvard Law School in 1864 and passed the Massachusetts bar in 1867, worked as a lawyer in Boston for fourteen years.
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., was born on March 8, 1841, in Boston, Massachusetts. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1861. Holmes served for three years with the Massachusetts Twentieth Volunteers during the Civil War. He was wounded three times.
Jun 14, 2024 · Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - Supreme Court, Jurist, Legal Theory: In 1880–81 Holmes was invited to lecture on the common law at the Lowell Institute in Boston, and from these addresses developed his book The Common Law (1881).
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. would serve on the Supreme Court longer than any other person-thirty years. He was called "The Great Dissenter" because he was often at odds with his fellow justices and was capable of eloquently expressing his dissents.
May 1, 2019 · I n the spring of 1864, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was fighting in the Civil War as a Union Army captain. He had enlisted three years earlier, soon after the war began, when he was 20 and in his last term at Harvard College, in the class of 1861.
