Darrow, Clarence Seward (1857-1938)

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Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, March 16, 1902

Flora Stone Mather to Jane Addams, February 22, 1903

Lucy Louisa Flower to Jane Addams, November 15, 1911

New Russia Lecture Announcement, November 12, 1922

John P. Altgeld Biography Subscription List, December 1922

Louis Freeland Post to Subscribers of the John P. Altgeld Biography, April 5, 1924

Mr. Ware and the Peasants, July 22, 1925

Thousands of Political Prisoners Abroad Need Help, October 1925

League for the Abolition of Capital Punishment flyer, ca. October 1926

Clarence Seward Darrow to Jane Addams, September 11, 1901

Illinois La Follette-Wheeler Campaign Committee to Jane Addams, et. al., October 8, 1924 (fragment)

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1857-05-18

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1938-03-13

Birthplace

Kinsman, OH

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Clarence S. Darrow was a lawyer and labor activist. He was a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and an advocate for Georgist economic reform. Darrow defended Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. after they murdered fourteen year-old Bobby Franks. He also defended John T. Scopes in the Scopes Trial. Darrow was also one of America's leading labor attorneys, until he was tried for attempting to bribe jurors, after which he became a criminal lawyer. He organized the Populist Party in Illinois and ran for Congress as a Democrat in 1896.

Darrow married Jessie Ohl in 1880. They had one son. The marriage ended in divorce and Darrow married Ruby Hammerstrom in 1904. Darrow died in 1938.