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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (/ h oʊ m z /; August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day.
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. [A] Holmes is one of the most widely cited and influential Supreme Court justices in American history, noted for his long tenure on the Court and for his pithy opinions—particularly those on civil liberties and American ...
Holmes was born Oliver Wendell Holmes in Cheshire, Ohio to Ferdie and Ada Holmes. [5] Census records indicate that by 1930 the family was living in Columbus, Ohio. [6]
The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind – and Changed the History of Free Speech in America. New York: Metropolitan Books. ISBN 9780805094565. Larson, Carlton F. W. (October 2015). " 'Shouting "Fire" in a Theater': The Life and Times of Constitutional Law's Most Enduring Analogy". William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal ...
Carl Henry Vogt (February 19, 1895 – May 12, 1956), known by his stage name Louis Calhern, was an American actor. [1] Described as a “star leading man of the theater and a star character actor of the screen,” [2] he appeared in over 100 roles on the Broadway stage and in films and television, between 1923 and 1956.
The U.S. Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise is a committee established by Congress in 1955 after the late Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. bequeathed a portion of his estate to the United States in 1935. The Congress used the gift to establish the Committee to document and disseminate the history of the Court.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894), married Amelia Lee Jackson Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935), jurist Jonathan Jackson (1743–1810), merchant and Continental Congress delegate from Massachusetts , married Sarah Barnard (d. 1770), remarried to Hannah Tracy (d. 1797)
The group is typically thought to include Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., [2] who were the first American poets whose popularity rivaled that of British poets, both at home and abroad. Ralph Waldo Emerson is occasionally included in the group as ...