oliver wendell holmes

     

At the time of his 1902 nomination to the Supreme Court, he was Chief Justice of Massachusetts

Trivia about oliver wendell holmes

  • He wrote "Old Ironsides" while a law student
  • This "Great Dissenter" was class poet for the Harvard class of 1861
  • He called "The Chambered Nautilus" "The Ship of Pearl"
  • His 1830 poem "Old Ironsides" helped save the U.S.S. Constitution from destruction
  • Although called the "Great Dissenter", this jurist's dissents numbered only about 3% of some 6,000 cases
  • A few weeks before his own death, Whittier wrote his last poem "To" this "Old Ironsides" poet
  • The biography "The Judge from Beacon Hill" covers his life & his 3 decades on the Supreme Court
  • In 1919 he stated the concept of "clear & present danger" as the only basis for limiting free speech
  • In August this "Junior", son of a physician, poet & essayist, was appointed to the Supreme Court
  • He was professor of anatomy at Harvard Medical School when he wrote "The Chambered Nautilus"
  • The son of this "Old Ironsides" author was on the Supreme Court
  • In 1857 this "Old Ironsides" poet & others founded the Atlantic Monthly
  • ...ran Harvard's medical school & fathered a Supreme Court Justice
  • Wounded 3 times in the Civil War, this future Supreme Courter became Chief Justice of Mass. in 1899

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