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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States · 1902
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. American jurist (1841–1935); US Supreme Court justice from 1902 to 1932
Positions
- Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States1902-12-04–1932-01-12
Education
- Harvard CollegeA.B., 1861
- Harvard Law SchoolLL.B., 1866
Career
U.S. Army lieutenant, 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment, 1861-1864; Private practice, Boston, Massachusetts, 1867-1882; Instructor in constitutional law, Harvard College, 1870-1871; Editor, American Law Review, 1870-1873; Lecturer on common law, Lowell Institute, 1880; Weld professor of law, Harvard Law School, 1882; Justice, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1882-1902; chief justice, 1899-1902
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