OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 1841 1935 U.S SUPREME COURT JUSTICE HOLMES OLIVER WENDELL 1841 1935 CIVIL WAR U.S GOV'T JUDICIAL U.S GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION OLIVER HOLMES OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES WAS BORN IN BOSTON IN 1841 HE WAS NAMED AFTER HIS FATHER A FAMOUS PHYSICIAN HOLMES WAS FORMALLY EDUCATED IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND ATTENDED HARVARD UNIVERSITY AFTER RECEIVING HIS BACHELOR'S DEGREE HE ENTERED HARVARD LAW SCHOOL WHEN THE CIVIL WAR BROKE OUT HOLMES DISCONTINUED HIS STUDIES TO SERVE IN THE UNION ARMY HE WAS WOUNDED AT THE BATTLES OF BALL'S BLUFF ANTIETAM AND FREDERICKSBURG IN 1866 HOLMES GRADUATED FROM HARVARD LAW SCHOOL HE BEGAN PRACTICING LAW THE NEXT YEAR HOLMES CO EDITED AMERICAN LAW REVIEW AND PRODUCED THE TWELFTH EDITION OF KENT'S COMMENTARIES ON AMERICAN LAW IN 1881 HE WROTE THE HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL THE COMMON LAW HE BECAME ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS IN 1882 AND SERVED AS ITS CHIEF JUSTICE FROM 1899 TO 1902 IN 1902 THEODORE ROOSEVELT APPOINTED HOLMES TO THE U.S SUPREME COURT WHILE ON THE COURT HOLMES BECAME KNOWN FOR HIS POWERFUL OPINIONS OFTEN IN DISSENT OR DISAGREEMENT WITH THE OTHER JUSTICES HE SOON BECAME KNOWN AS THE GREAT DISSENTER
