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Clarence Darrow Biography 
Clarence Darrow | Clarence Seward Darrow
Born: 1857-04-18
Birthplace: Kinsman, OH
Died: 1938-03-13
Location of Death: Chicago, IL
Race: White
Religion: Agnostic
Field: Attorney
Famous for: Scopes Monkey Trial
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Clarence Darrow (April 18, 1857 - March 13, 1938) was the lawyer that defended Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murder and defended John T. Scopes in the so-called "Monkey Trial" on teaching evolution, opposing prosecutor William Jennings Bryan. |
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Best Political Nonfiction Books
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
... Post and is the author of Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century and an upcoming biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow. ...
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Darrow wins Democratic nomination for 14th Judicial Circuit judge
Quad City Times
In the race to replace 14th Judicial Circuit Judge Larry Vandersnick, Clarence Darrow of Rock Island won the Democratic nomination in a three-way race ...
Inside the Rod Blagojevich investigation and related cases
Chicago Sun-Times (blog)
By Clarence Darrow Bernadine Dohrn on February 9, 2010 1:32 AM How fitting his defense attorneys have a fool for a client and Blago has fools as defense ...
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Populists Were Not Always a Fringe Group
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
... in the course of digging up details about Clarence Darrow's little-known role as a Populist firebrand, I thought I might offer a taste of the flavor of ...
Reader Comments
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
... Post and is the author of Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century and an upcoming biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow. ...
Smoke the Bigots Out of the Closet
New York Times
... Proposition 8 is becoming a Scopes trial of sorts, with the unlikely bipartisan legal team of David Boies and Ted Olson in the Clarence Darrow role. ...
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Readers Write for Sunday, Feb. 7
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Another motto comes to mind: "Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve." -- Clarence Darrow.
Liberty lunches at Middlebury library
Rutland Herald
... first in which the ACLU and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People collaborated, and that Clarence Darrow took up Sweet's cause. ...
Plain Talk: Gableman's embrace of defense attorneys rings hollow
Capital Times
Clarence Darrow would be pleased. Gableman, whose campaign and a $2 million advertising blitz orchestrated by Wisconsin Manufactures & Commerce last spring ...
Mencken, Islam, and Political Correctness
Family Security Matters
... the New York World and the New Republic, for castigating Clarence Darrow, chief defense counsel of Scopes, over his conduct during the trial. ...
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