Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr:: The Supreme Court And American Legal Thought

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was a member of Boston's elite, a thrice-wounded Union soldier, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, a professor of law, a celebrated legal scholar, and a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. He is best remembered, however, as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, a position he held for thirty years, from 1902 to 1932.