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Birth Name: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Born: 8 March 1841 Died: 6 March 1935
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United States
Height: 5' 6"
Relationship Status: Married
Partner: Fanny Bowditch Dixwell
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was an American jurist and legal scholar who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. He is one of the most widely cited U.S. Supreme Court justices and most influential American common law judges in history, noted for his long service, pithy opinions—particularly those on civil liberties and American constitutional democracy—and deference to the decisions of elected legislatures. Holmes retired from the court at the age of 90, an unbeaten record for oldest justice on the Supreme Court. He previously served as a Brevet Colonel in the American Civil
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