Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was a long-serving U.S. Supreme Court Justice and influential legal thinker known for his contributions to American common law and free speech jurisprudence.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
human
jurist
legal scholar
veteran
appointedBy Theodore Roosevelt
burialPlace Arlington National Cemetery
conflict American Civil War
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1841-03-08
dateOfDeath 1935-03-06
educatedAt Harvard University
surface form: "Harvard College"

Harvard Law School
endTime 1932-01-12
familyName Holmes
father Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
fieldOfWork American common law
constitutional law
freedom of speech jurisprudence
fullName Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
givenName Oliver
honorificSuffix Jr.
influenced legal realism
surface form: "American legal realism"

First Amendment jurisprudence
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Supreme Court of the United States
militaryBranch Union Army
mother Amelia Lee Jackson
movement legal realism
notableIdea "marketplace of ideas" metaphor in free speech
clear and present danger test
notableWork Schenck v. United States
surface form: ""Clear and present danger" doctrine"

Abrams v. United States
surface form: "Abrams v. United States dissent"

Buck v. Bell opinion
Lochner v. New York
surface form: "Lochner v. New York dissent"

Schenck v. United States
surface form: "Schenck v. United States opinion"

The Common Law
occupation judge
lawyer
legal scholar
placeOfBirth Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: "Boston, Massachusetts, United States"
placeOfDeath Washington, D.C.
surface form: "Washington, D.C., United States"
positionHeld Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Chief Justice
surface form: "Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court"
residence Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: "Boston, Massachusetts, United States"

Washington, D.C.
surface form: "Washington, D.C., United States"
spouse Fanny Bowditch Dixwell
startTime 1902-12-04

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Frohwerk v. United States authorOfMajorityOpinion Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Amelia Lee Jackson child Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. child Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Oliver child Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
subject surface form: "Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr."
Lochner v. New York dissentBy Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Abrams v. United States dissentingOpinionBy Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Hammer v. Dagenhart dissentingOpinionBy Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. fullName Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Gitlow v. New York hasDissentBy Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Phillips Academy Andover hasNotableAlumni Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Holmes hasNotableBearer Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Hollis Hall hasNotableResident Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Roscoe Pound influencedBy Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Schenck v. United States majorityOpinionBy Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Amelia Lee Jackson notableRelative Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
John White Alexander notableWork Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
this entity surface form: "Portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr."
Debs v. United States opinionBy Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Frohwerk v. United States opinionBy Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Louis Calhern portrayed Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
this entity surface form: "Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in The Magnificent Yankee"
Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo precededBy Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
subject surface form: "Benjamin N. Cardozo"

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