Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. #58 (1841-1935)

Holmes autographs a business card and dates it April 3, 1926. There are two large photographs of the Justice. There is also a newsprint of four Justices that are identified as Justice John M. Harlan, #44, Justice Joseph McKenna, #57, Justice William R. Day, #59, and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. #58. There is a picture of the united states supreme court building which was not finished until 1935. These Justices were never inside the supreme court building when complete. Justice Holmes passed the year the structure was occupied by the Court.

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Edward D White #55 (Service: 1894-1910) & Rufus W. Peckham #56 (Service: 1896-1909)
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Edward D White #55 (Service: 1894-1910) & Rufus W. Peckham #56 (Service: 1896-1909)

9th Chief Justice Edward D. White #55 (1845-1921) justice white was nominated to the court as an Associate Justice in 1894 by President Grover Cleveland and served in that capacity until 1910 when then President William Howard Taft nominated him as Chief Justice. Chief White served in the capacity as Chief Justice until he passed in 1921. President Warren Harding nominated past President Taft as Chief Justice in the same year. 10th Chief Justice Taft retired in 1930. He hardly ever remembered being President as he found that position loathsome.

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