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Clarence Seward Darrow

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DARROW, CLARENCE SEWARD Ameri can lawyer, was born at Kinsman, O., April 15, 1857. He re ceived a public school education and was called to the bar in afterwards practising in Chicago. He appeared as counsel in a large number of important cases, many of which attracted wide attention, and he became recognized as one of the leading crim inal lawyers in the United States. He was retained by the labour organizations in much of their litigation of recent years. Among the celebrated cases in which he appeared were the Debs strike case 0895), anthracite coal strike arbitration (1902), Steunen burg murder (1907), The Los Angeles Times dynamite case (1911) and the Loeb-Leopold case (1924). In July 1925 he de fended J. T. Scopes at the Tennessee evolution trial. He wrote Crime, Its Cause and Treatment (19 2 2) ; Farmington, A Persian Pearl and Other Essays, An Eye for an Eye, The Prohibition Mania, and many other books and pamphlets on social, literary and economic questions. For many years he was a well-known platform speaker and debater.

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