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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Associate justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was the son of the celebrated American writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes and Amelia Lee Jackson.1
His father was a well-known poet and author, while his mother, Amelia Lee Jackson, was the daughter of Charles Jackson, who served as a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.1