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John Washington Butler (December 17, 1875 – September 24, 1952) was an American farmer and a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1923 to 1927, representing Macon, Trousdale, and Sumner counties.
Oct 8, 2017 · John W. Butler, state representative from Macon, Trousdale, and Sumner Counties (1923-27), wrote the Tennessee Anti-Evolution Act, better known as the Tennessee Monkey Law. The son of a long-settled farming family in Macon County, as a young man Butler taught school briefly.
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When the ACLU lawyers put his new law to the test in the Scopes trial, John Butler journeyed 175 miles to Dayton to report the confrontation in his new role as trial commentator for a press association.
Mar 11, 2022 · John Washington Butler was an American farmer and a Tennessee State Legislator from 1923-1927 . He was the author of Tennessee’s “Anti-Evolution Bill” in 1925.
In the spring of 1924, John Washington Butler, a representative in the Tennessee legislature, took the occasion of his forty-ninth birthday to write a bill designed to prohibit the teaching of human evolution in the state's public schools.
Sep 24, 2018 · John Washington Butler, a Primitive Baptist and admirer of William Jennings Bryan, was a prosperous farmer, thresher operator, and community leader in Macon County who represented Macon, Trousdale, and Sumner Counties in the Tennessee House of Representatives (1923–27).
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Jun 29, 2019 · The Butler Act was a 1925 law that banned teaching evolution in Tennessee public schools. It was challenged by John T. Scopes, who was tried and fined in the famous Scopes Monkey trial.
