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	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Holmes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of the prominent writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
		Holmes was a strong critic of the Supreme Court's "liberty of contract" doctrine, which was frequently invoked to strike down progressive economic legislation, most famously in the 1905 case of Lochner v.
		Holmes served until January 12, 1932, when his brethren on the court, citing his advanced age (Holmes was, at 90, the oldest serving justice in the Court's history), hesitantly requested that he step down, and he complied.
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	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Oliver Wendell Holmes the elder, (August 29, 1809 – October 8, 1894) was a physician by profession but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century.
		In 1846, in a letter to William T. Morton, the dentist who was the first practicioner to publicly demonstrate the use of ether during surgery, Holmes coined the word anæsthesia.
		Holmes died in Boston, Massachusetts in 1894, and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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	OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES - LoveToKnow Article on OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Through her Dr Holmes was descended from Governors Thomas Dudley and Simon Bradstreet of Massachusetts, and from her i he derived his cheerfulness and vivacity, his sympathetic humour and wit.
		In 1847 Dr Holmes was appointed professor of anatomy and physiology in the Medical School of Harvard University, the duties involving the giving of instruction also in kindred departments, so that, as he said, he occupied not a chair, but a settee in the school.
		Holmes generally held himself aloof from politics, and from those causes of temperance, abolition and womans rights which enthralled most of his contemporaries in New England.
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	Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
		Holmes was, as we will see, a great believer in eugenics and family planning, but he was unlikely to have been of the opinion that his were among the bloodlines that needed to be discontinued.
		When Holmes was a young man, there was no lack of philosophers of jurisprudence, such as Austin and Bentham, who dedicated their careers to fighting the concept of natural law.
		Certainly Holmes was disturbed by broad new laws forbidding speech that tended to "interfere with recruiting" or that advocated the overthrow of the government at some indefinite point in the future, or that otherwise hinted you might be up to no good.
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	Oliver Wendell Holmes Biographical Sketch
		HOLMES had much to say in his writings of the problems of heredity, and was apparently as ready to recognize the caprices as the regular action of inherited tendencies.
		Oliver Wendell Holmes, the third child and eldest son of Abiel and Mary Wendell Holmes, was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 29, 1809.
		Holmes is strongly identified with Cambridge and Boston by his residence in those two places; but, as some of his poems hint, he had another home at Pittsfield in the western part of the State, where he lived for seven summers.
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	Oliver Wendell Holmes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Holmes had a difficult relationship with his father, who often used Holmes as the recipient of his barbs in his Atlantic Monthly column, "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table." He was his mother's favorite child, and received his self-confidence from her.
		TR nominated Holmes because he thought Wendell was trustworthy on the issue of taxation of those in the colonies (gained as a result of the Spanish-American War of 1898), and because TR well knew Holmes’s stock speech glorifying war.
		Holmes was an exceptional writer of pithy statements ("Three generations of imbeciles are enough;" "A word is but the skin of a living thought;" and "The fourteenth amendment does not enact Mr.
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	MSN Encarta - Oliver Wendell Holmes
		Holmes was born in Boston and given the same name as his father, the writer.
		Holmes became professor of law at Harvard Law School in 1882, but resigned in the same year to accept an appointment as associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court.
		Holmes became famous for his liberal interpretations of the U.S. Constitution and was known as the “Great Dissenter” because of his disagreement with the views of his colleagues on the Court.
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		Holmes, a long time asthma-sufferer, was once asked how hay fever could be c...
		Katie Holmes, the youngest of five children, was once asked whether she had been...
		Oliver Wendell Holmes was often pestered by devoted admirers, some of whom would...
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	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. \| American Jurist
		In 1882 Holmes became professor of law at Harvard, and was appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1899.
		A cornerstone of Holmes's judicial philosophy was his opinion that, "The life of the law has not been logic, but experience." He insisted that the court look at the facts in a changing society, instead of clinging to worn-out slogans and formulas.
		Holmes convinced people that the law should develop along with the society it serves.
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	Holmes, Oliver Wendell, American jurist. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Holmes taught (1870–73) constitutional law and jurisprudence at Harvard while editing the American Law Review and the 12th edition (1873) of Kent’s Commentaries.
		He maintained that the law could be understood only as a response to the needs of the society it regulated, and that it was useless to consider it merely a body of rules developed logically by legal theorists.
		In cases dealing with free speech, however, Holmes felt it necessary for the judge to loose the bonds of restraint and prevent legislatures from assuming censorious powers.
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	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Holmes evidently took this as an affront and left to train for the Civil War.
		Holmes apparently, and justifiably, felt that he had done more than his duty, and had survived one battle too many to continue tempting fate.
		Holmes was never accused of modesty, especially concerning his superiority to his fellow judges.
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	Chapter Oliver Wendell Holmes of Index by Simonds History of American Literature
		The poet's mother, Sarah Wendell Holmes, whom he closely resembled in slightness of figure and vivacity of spirits, was a lineal descendant of Governor Bradstreet and his wife, Anne, best remembered for her poetical gifts and celebrated in her generation as the Tenth Muse.
		Five years later, as it was in the mind of Rev. Abiel Holmes that his son should become a minister, the boy was sent to Andover to take his preparatory course in Phillips Academy, under the sober influences which dominated that orthodox community.
		Thus at twenty-three, Oliver Wendell Holmes had already entered the fields of literary effort in which he was to win such happy success, and had duly registered his claim.
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	Holmes, Oliver Wendell -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was the first child of the celebrated writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes.
		One of the most famous justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was known as “the great dissenter.” He was called this because often when the court handed down a decision Holmes delivered a minority opinion, or dissent.
		Oliver Wendell Holmes won early renown with Old Ironsides (1830), which told the story of the USS Constitution in such stirring words that people rallied and saved it from destruction.
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	Oliver Wendell Holmes biography and poetry of the famous American poet
		HOLMES was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 29, 1809, and died October 7, 1894.
		Holmes' literary tastes were early indicated by his comic and satiric verse contributed to "The Collegian." These were excellent of their kind.
		"Holmes was a shining instance of one who did solid work as a teacher and practitioner, in spite of his success in literature." "Poetry," a metrical essay, was followed by "Terpsichore," a poem; in 1846, "Urania," in 1850, "Astreea," "The Balance of Allusions," a poem.
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		Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent father and son:
		The Essential Holmes, edited by Richard A. Posner (judge on the seventh circuit) collects the thoughts of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
		Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
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	The Deacon's Masterpiece, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
		Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) was a Harvard medical professor and author of famous and witty poems and pieces in the
		Holmes uses the word in the subtitle, the preface, and at several critical points in the poem.
		Holmes is a liberal Unitarian and scientific physician who points out the absurdity of carrying practice to its theoretical logical conclusion, insteading of relying on wise experience.
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	Holmes, Oliver Wendell on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He began his medical career as a general practitioner but shifted into the academic field, becoming professor of anatomy and physiology at Dartmouth (1838-40), dean of the Harvard medical school (1847-53), and Parkman professor of anatomy and physiology at Harvard (1847-82).
		Oliver Wendell Holmes: el arte de controlar al poder.(juez estadounidense)(formación y bases del poder judicial en Estados Unidos)(Biografía)
		Oliver Wendell Holmes Society.(Harvard Medical School academic society)(Brief Article)
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	Poems (oliver Wendell Holmes) - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Oliver Wendell Holmes: The autocrat and his fellow-boarders : with selected poems
		Oliver Wendell Holmes;: The autocrat and his fellow-boarders.
		Holmes leaflets: Poems and prose passages from the works of Oliver Wendell Holmes for reading and recitation (Riverside literature series)
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		Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said democracy requires not only freedom of speech for those who agree with us, but also "freedom for the thought we hate.".
		Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr - poet and essayist
		Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr - justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline of American Literature: Democratic Origins and Revolutionary ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Oliver Wendell Holmes, a celebrated physician and professor of anatomy and physiology at Harvard, is the hardest of the three well-known Brahmins to categorize because his work is marked by a refreshing versatility.
		Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the suburb of Boston that is home to Harvard, Holmes was the son of a prominent local minister.
		Holmes was the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, the Supreme Court Justice.
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		The most famous Harvard man of the Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was a towering figure in American jurisprudence, and one of the Twentieth Century's most influential public figures.
		Holmes the soldier served with distinction, surviving three wounds and rising to the rank of Captain in the Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry.
		Holmes' life-long wish was to be interred with his fellow soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery.
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	Professor Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr ( 1809 - 94 ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr “Everybody wants to have a hand in a great discovery.
		Anaesthesia was christened in a letter by the Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Dartmouth College, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr, to etherization pioneer William Morton.
		Holmes, Sr, was father of the future Supreme Court Justice.
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	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Associate Justice, US Supreme Court (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		His wife, Fannie Bowditch Dixwell Holmes (December 1840-April 1929), whose burial was arranged by Chief Justice William Howard Taft because Holmes was too shy to ask for the honor, is buried with him.
		Young Holmes, 20 years old and shortly to be graduated from Harvard with the class of '61, walked down Beacon Hill with an open Hobbe's "Leviathan" in his hand and learned that he was commissioned in the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteers.
		Holmes was only 39 years old when Harvard called him back to teach in her Law School and 41 when he became an Associate Justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Court bench.
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	Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		However, the Holmes family was of the same general group of Puritans in Mass.
		Justice Holmes' grandfather Rev. Abiel Holmes was pastor of Midway Congregational Church from 1785 to 1791; then he was pastor in Cambridge, Mass., for 40 years.
		The Holmes family, which mostly resided in Woodstock Connecticut, is also part of the Connecticut connection.
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	Cordula's Web. Oliver Wendell Holmes
		Some of Oliver Wendell Holmes' works from Project Gutenberg.
		Oliver Wendell Holmes' section in the DMOZ Open Directory.
		Oliver Wendell Holmes the elder, (August 29, 1809 - October 8, 1894) was a physician by profession but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century.
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	Amazon.com: Books: The Common Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE by Oliver Wendell Holmes
		Holmes' prose is occasionally arcane, but enduring the tics of a writing style rooted in Civil War America is a small price to pay in exchange for experiencing the thoughts of one of the most formative legal minds in American history.
		With that said, the concepts brought forth by Holmes are intriguing, and the presentation of the legal terms affords one a great opportunity to learn their usage--if a copy of Black's Law Dictionary is readily available and flipped through every other sentence.
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	Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes - The Quotations Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872
		Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
		Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
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	Amazon.com: Books: The Essential Holmes : Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Oliver Wendell Holmes is a major figure not only in American law but also in American letters.
		U.S. Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes has to be one of the most frequently quoted legal scholars and this book walks a reader through his prolific writings.
		Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: The "Yankee from Olympus":
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