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OLIVER WENDELL
HOLMES, JR., was born on March 8, 1841, in Boston, Massachusetts.
He was graduated from Harvard College in 1861. Holmes
served for three years with the Massachusetts Twentieth
Volunteers during the Civil War. He was wounded three
times. In 1866 he returned to Harvard and received his
law degree. The following year Holmes was admitted to
the bar and joined a law firm in Boston, where he practiced
for fifteen years. Holmes taught law at his alma mater,
edited the American Law Review, and lectured at the
Lowe Institute. In 1881, he published a series of twelve
lecturers on the common law, which was translated into
several languages. In 1882, while working as a full
professor at Harvard Law School, Holmes was appointed
by the Governor to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts.
He served on that Court for twenty years, the last three
as Chief Justice. On December 2, 1902, President Theodore
Roosevelt nominated Holmes to the Supreme Court of the
United States. The Senate confirmed the appointment
two days later. Holmes served on the Supreme Court for
twenty-nine years and retired on January 12, 1932. He
died on March 6, 1935, two days short of his ninety-fourth
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