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Encyclopedia > Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (919 words)
Holmes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of the prominent writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Holmes was a strong critic of the Supreme Court's "liberty of contract" doctrine, which was frequently invoked to strike down progressive economic legislation, most famously in the 1905 case of Lochner v.
Holmes served until January 12, 1932, when his brethren on the court, citing his advanced age (Holmes was, at 90, the oldest serving justice in the Court's history), hesitantly requested that he step down, and he complied.
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