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Early life. Clarence Seward Darrow was born on April 18, 1857, in Farmdale, Ohio, the fifth of Amirus and Emily Darrow's eight children. His father, after completing studies at a seminary (institution for training members of the priesthood), had lost his faith and become a nonbeliever living within a strongly religious community.
Jun 10, 2009 · Clarence Darrow, with his seamed face and stooped shoulders making him look every one of his 67 years, was America's greatest and most controversial defender of the lost and the damned.
May 1, 2012 · Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned. Clarence Darrow. : The definitive biography of Clarence Darrow, the brilliant, idiosyncratic lawyer who defended John Scopes in the “Monkey Trial” and gave voice to the populist masses at the turn of the twentieth century, thus changing American law forever. Amidst the tumult of the industrial age ...
Clarence Darrow (April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He was the son of Eddy and Amirus Darrow, a furniture manufacturer and dealer Amirus Darrow had originally trained as a minister,but just before his ordination he experienced a crisis of faith that led him ...
Lawyer, Social Reformer. He was the son of former Unitarian minister who was a freethinking iconoclast who sheltered escaping slaves in the Darrows' Kinsman, Ohio home. Attracted to debate by his father's continual need to defend his political and religious positions, Clarence Darrow trained for one year as an...
Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) by Doug Linder (2004) Clarence Seward Darrow grew up the son of coffin-maker Americus Darrow, the village atheist and eccentric in the small, former abolitionist stronghold of Kinsman, Ohio. Clarence is bequethed "a nonconforming spirit, a skeptical mind, and freelance politics that drifted toward cynicism."
Clarence Darrow, the “sophisticated country lawyer,” was, when the Scopes trial opened in Dayton, Tennessee , at the same time one of the best loved and most hated men of his time—a status that it is hard to imagine a trial attorney achieving today. The Scopes case was a dream-come-true for Clarence Darrow.
