Darrow, Clarence Seward
Darrow, Clarence Seward ( 1857 – 1938 )US lawyer. Known as the “attorney for the damned”, in 1894 he defended the railway leader Eugene Debs for his part in the Pullman strike ; although he lost, he earned a reputation for taking on controversial cases. This flair for controversy brought him to the verge of bankruptcy ( 1911 ), when he was tried, but acquitted, of conspiring to bribe jurors. He defended over 50 people charged with murder, but only once did he lose a client to the executioner. In 1925 he defended the evolutionist biology teacher in the Scopes Trial but lost the case.
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