Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow was a prominent American defense attorney and civil libertarian best known for his high-profile cases like the Scopes "Monkey" Trial and his advocacy for individual rights and social justice.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American
civil libertarian
defense attorney
human
lawyer
barAdmission Illinois
Ohio
causeOfDeath pulmonary edema
child Paul Darrow
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1857-04-18
dateOfDeath 1938-03-13
educatedAt Allegheny College
University of Michigan Law School
employer Chicago and North Western Railway Company
Chicago, Illinois, United States
surface form: "City of Chicago"
familyName Darrow
fieldOfWork civil liberties
criminal law
labor law
givenName Clarence
knownFor advocacy of civil liberties
defending unpopular clients
opposition to the death penalty
public debates on religion and science
memberOf Democratic Party
surface form: "Democratic Party (United States)"
movement civil liberties movement
labor movement
notableIdea deterministic view of human behavior
opposition to capital punishment
notableWork Leopold and Loeb murder trial
McNamara brothers bombing case
Ossian Sweet trial
Scopes "Monkey" Trial
occupation author
lawyer
orator
placeOfBirth Kinsman, Ohio, United States
placeOfBurial Graceland Cemetery
surface form: "Graceland Cemetery, Chicago"
placeOfDeath Chicago, Illinois, United States
politicalAlignment progressive
positionHeld attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
corporation counsel for the City of Chicago
practicedLawIn Chicago, Illinois, United States
surface form: "Chicago, Illinois"
religiousView agnosticism
represented Big Bill Haywood
John T. Scopes
Nathan Leopold
Ossian Sweet
Richard Loeb
sexOrGender male
spouse Jessie Ohl
Ruby Hammerstrom
wrote "An Eye for an Eye"
"Crime: Its Cause and Treatment"
"Resist Not Evil"
"The Story of My Life"

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Butler Act defenseAttorneyInNotableTrial Clarence Darrow
American Civil Liberties Union foundedBy Clarence Darrow
play "Inherit the Wind" hasCharacter Clarence Darrow
subject surface form: "Inherit the Wind"
this entity surface form: "Henry Drummond"
Scopes "Monkey" Trial participant Clarence Darrow
John T. Scopes representedBy Clarence Darrow