Darrow, Clarence (1857-1938)
Sometimes reviled for his defense of unpopular people and causes, Clarence Darrow was the most widely known attorney in the United States at the time of his death in 1938....
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Closing Argument in the Leopold and Loeb TrialPublished in 1924
In the late spring of 1924 the nation was shocked by the news of a kidnapping and murder in Chicago, Illinois. Nathan L...
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Clarence Darrow
Born April 18, 1857 (Kinsman, Ohio)Died March 13, 1938 (Chicago, Illinois)
Lawyer
Clarence Darrow was one of the most famous lawyers in U.S. history. Always a strong defender of the un...
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As an American labor lawyer and as a criminal lawyer, Clarence Seward Darrow (1857-1938) helped sharpen debate about the path of American industrialism and about the treatment of individuals in confli...
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Clarence Seward Darrow is one of the most famous attorneys in U.S. history. A complex man, Darrow defended many labor union and political radicals between 1894 and 1914, yet also made enormous fees re...
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Clarence Darrow is best known as the attorney who defended John Thomas Scopes, the schoolteacher brought to trial in 1925 for teaching the theory of evolution in his classroom in Hillsboro, Tennessee....
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