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The case of Holmes vs Walton was the first instance of an American court's assuming the authority to pronounce upon the constitutionality of an act of the Legislature. The Legislature of New Jersey had, in 1779, passed an act making lawful a trial before a jury of six men. In the case of Holmes vs Walton the constitutionality of this act was questioned, and upon its being decided unconstitutional by the Court of Appeals, the act was repealed and a constitutional jury of twelve men substituted.
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The Strand Magazine was founded in 1891 by Sir George Newnes and was immediately popular not least for its Sherlock Holmes stories which it carried written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a British author. He trained in medicine, but started writing to earn some money. He is best remembered for creating the character Sherlock Holmes.
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David Holmes was an American politician. He was a Democratic-Republican governor of Mississippi from 1817 until 1820.
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Gabriel Holmes was an American politician. He was a governor of North Carolina from 1821 until 1824.
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Isaac E Holmes was an American politician. He was born in 1796 and died in 1867. He served in the South Carolina Legislature in 1826 and 1832, where he proposed the nullification acts. He was a Democratic US Congressman from 1838 to 1851.
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John Holmes was an American politician. He was born in 1773 and died in 1843. He was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature from 1802 to 1803 and from 1813 to 1817. He was a Democratic US Congressman from 1817 to 1827 and from 1829 to 1833.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes was an American writer. He was born in 1809 at Cambridge, Massachusetts 1809 and died in 1894. Educated at Harvard University, he began the study of law, but in a short time relinquished it for that of medicine. In 1839 he became professor of anatomy and physiology at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, but resigned after two years' service in order to devote himself to practice in Boston. In 1847 he was appointed to the chair of anatomy at Harvard, a position which he filled until 1882. He was a voluminous writer both in prose and verse, and shone as a prominent figure in the famous group associated with the Atlantic Monthly. His chief works, besides several volumes of poems, and treatises on medicine, are The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The Professor at the Breakfast Table, and The Poet at the Breakfast Table;
Elsie Venner, The Guardian Angel, A Mortal Antipathy, and Memoirs of Motley and Emerson. A visit to Europe in 1886 produced a charming record, A Hundred Days in Europe.
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Robert D Holmes was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Oregon from 1957 until 1959.
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Theophilus H Holmes was an American soldier. He was born in 1804 and died in 1880. He was brevetted major for services in the Mexican War. He organized the North Carolina troops in 1861, and during the American Civil War commanded in the Confederate army in Northern Virginia and in the Trans-Mississippi Department.
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