Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is said to have considered Lott the “ablest lawyer” in Brooklyn.

MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is said to have considered Lott the “ablest lawyer” in Brooklyn.

MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

U.S. courts long have supported this concept, including a 1911 ruling in which Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote: "A contract of insurance upon a life in which the insured has no interest is a pure wager that gives the insured a sinister counter interest in having the life come to an end."

Life, Death and Insurance: Indiana's $15 Million Mystery Leslie Scism 2010

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., later perhaps the greatest of U.S. Supreme Court justices, put on his Civil War uniform and lectured young Harvard students that war was "divine," not to be missed.

Why Men Love War 2010

If you want to know what keeps serial entrepreneurs coming back for more, take a listen to the late Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Why Serial Entrepreneurs Can't Stop 2010

U.S. courts long have supported this concept, including a 1911 ruling in which Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote: "A contract of insurance upon a life in which the insured has no interest is a pure wager that gives the insured a sinister counter interest in having the life come to an end."

Life, Death and Insurance: Indiana's $15 Million Mystery Leslie Scism 2010

If you want to know what keeps serial entrepreneurs coming back for more, take a listen to the late Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Why Serial Entrepreneurs Can't Stop 2010

If you want to know what keeps serial entrepreneurs coming back for more, take a listen to the late Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Why Serial Entrepreneurs Can't Stop 2010

U.S. courts long have supported this concept, including a 1911 ruling in which Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote: "A contract of insurance upon a life in which the insured has no interest is a pure wager that gives the insured a sinister counter interest in having the life come to an end."

Life, Death and Insurance: Indiana's $15 Million Mystery Leslie Scism 2010

But President Obama took note of the occasion, as Stevens joined Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. as the only men who started their 10th decades on the court.

Obama marks Stevens' 90th birthday with congratulatory letter 2010