15c Oliver Wendell Holmes Type I single
Object Details
- Description
- This Prominent Americans Issue stamp depicts Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Born in 1841 in Massachusetts, Holmes served in the Civil War. Following the war, he studied at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1866. He served as the on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court before being nominated as an Associate Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902. He retired in 1932 at the age of 90, making him the oldest Justice in the Supreme Court’s history. He is also one of the most widely cited justices.
- United States; Massachusetts; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Civil War; military; soldier; Harvard Law School; lawyer; practice; bar; common law; American Law Review; Supreme Court; justice; judge; author; writer; opinion; portrait
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- March 8, 1968
- Object number
- 1980.2493.5564
- Printer
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Depicts
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, American, 1841 - 1935
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (magenta); adhesive; tagging / engraving
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 1288
- Topic
- Political Figures
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1980.2493.5564
