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Darrow lived in Rock Island, Illinois, with his wife and family and practiced law in Rock Island. He served as an assistant state's attorney for Rock Island County, Illinois from 1971 to 1974. Darrow served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1975 to 1983 and in the Illinois Senate from 1983 to 1987.
Darrow was an attorney best known for his 1925 defense of a Tennessee teacher who had presented Darwin’s theory of evolution in violation of state law at the time.
The most famous trial lawyer of his time, Clarence Darrow inspired reverential biographies, stage plays and performances from some of the 20th century’s greatest actors.
Clarence Seward Darrow (/ ˈ d ær oʊ /; April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer who became famous in the 19th century for high profile representations of trade union causes, and in the 20th century for several criminal matters, including the Leopold and Loeb murder trial, the Scopes "monkey" trial, and the Ossian Sweet defense.
After graduating from law school, Darrow worked in the law offices of Clarence Darrow in Rock Island, Illinois. [4] Between 1999 and 2003, she worked in the Henry County, Illinois State's Attorney's Office in Cambridge, Illinois.
Richard Ney once gave me a book to read: “Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned.” It spoke powerfully about Darrow’s deeply emotional opposition to the death penalty.
The union hired famed attorney Clarence Darrow to defend the McNamaras. Darrow, however, concluded that the brothers faced a strong chance of receiving the death penalty for the crime. Darrow therefore made a clumsy attempt, in broad daylight in downtown Los Angeles, to bribe one of the jurors. As it turned out, it was a trap and Darrow was ...
Baer made the closing arguments for the coal operators, while lawyer Clarence Darrow closed for the workers. Although the commissioners heard some evidence of terrible conditions, they concluded that the "moving spectacle of horrors" represented only a small number of cases.