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Clarence Darrow

Clarence Darrow (April 18, 1857 - March 13, 1938) was a highly successful attorney in the United States in the early 20th century, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Bobby Franks (1924) and defending John T. Scopes, who was accused of illegally teaching the Theory of Evolution in Tennessee public schools, in the Scopes Trial (1925), where William Jennings Bryan was the prosecutor. In 1925, at the behest of…

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