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Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son. The elder was a poet and essayist, the younger a judge of the United States Supreme Court. While the younger might be referred to as Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

or Oliver Wendell Holmes II, in practice they are both commonly known simply as Oliver Wendell Holmes, as their prominence was in separate fields.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes the elder, (August 29, 1809 - October 8, 1894) was a physician by profession but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century.

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He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of a minister. He was educated at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and at Harvard University. He first attained national prominence with his poem Old Ironsides about the 18th century battleship USS Constitution which was to be broken up for scrap; the poem generated public sentiment that resulted in the historic ship being pre