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Apr 18, 2008

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

Great Thinkers Datebook: April 18.

Clarence Seward Darrow (1857-1938), American Lawyer and defender of the poor, best known for using poetry in his summation, was born on April 18, in Trumbull Country, Ohio.

Darrow defended Eugene V. Debs following the Pullman strike. In the Woodworkers case, he won for labor the legal right to strike. He also successfully defended William Haywood, accused of assassinating former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg.

Clarence Darrow achieved further fame in the Loeb-Leopold murder case and in the John Scopes "monkey" trial, successfully opposing William Jennings Bryan.

Darrow wrote Crime, Its Cause and Treatment.

He died in Ohio, March 13, 1938.
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