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Name:
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow
Dates:
Born: April 18, 1857 in Kinsman, Ohio
Died: March 13, 1938 in Chicago
Admitted to the Bar: 1878
Loeb-Leopold kidnap, murder, and ransom case: 1924
Scopes anti-evolution "monkey trial": 1925
Biography:
Clarence Darrow was a famous lawyer who generally used his fame in the courtroom as a
means to promote his own personal philosophies, like his critiques of religion. One of
his most famous cases was the Scopes Monkey Trial, in which he defended John Scopes
against the charge of teaching evolution in a public school.
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A system of human beliefs, ideals and practices which is harder to define than it may at first appear.
