Clarence Darrow Biography

Clarence Darrow biography

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NAME: Clarence Darrow
OCCUPATION: Lawyer, Journalist
BIRTH DATE: April 18, 1857
DEATH DATE: March 13, 1938
EDUCATION: Allegheny College, University of Michigan Law School
PLACE OF BIRTH: Kinsman, Ohio
PLACE OF DEATH: Chicago, Illinois
Full Name: Clarence Seward Darrow

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Clarence Darrow was a lawyer who worked as defense counsel in many dramatic criminal trials. He was also a public speaker, debater, and miscellaneous writer.

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Profile

Lawyer Clarence Darrow moved to Chicago in 1887 and attempted to free the anarchists charged in the Haymarket Riot. In 1894 he defended Eugene V. Debs, arrested on a federal charge arising from the Pullman Strike. He also secured the acquittal of labor leader William D. Haywood for assassination charges, saved Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold from the death penalty, and defended John T. Scopes.