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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr
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Date: 20050101
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr
(1841–1935) US jurist and legal scholar, son of Oliver Wendell Holmes . He co-edited the American Law Review (1870–73) and Kent's Commentaries (1873), and wrote The Common Law (1881). A justice (1882–99) and then chief justice (1899–1902) of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, he became an associate justice of the US Supreme Court (1902–32). He supported laws protecting child labour and was a champion of civil liberties.Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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