CLARENCE DARROW - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH 03/24/1924 - HFSID 156631
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CLARENCE DARROW
Small sepia publicity photograph of Clarence Darrow looking past his shoulder.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "Clarence Darrow/to his friend/Mrs. Helen
Normanton/Chicago March 24, 1924". Sepia, 4½x6½. Photo by Krauch, Los Angeles.
Attorney Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), who specialized in corporate law, shot to fame in
1894, when he defended American Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs, President of the
American Railroad Union, arrested on a federal contempt of court charge arising from a strike
at the Chicago Pullman Palace Car Company. Although Darrow lost the case, he won a
national reputation as a champion of radical causes. A brilliant orator and a master of
reforming the law, framing pleas and eliciting evidence, he became one of America's most
renowned defense lawyers, and he used his position to campaign against capital punishment.
In his sixties, Darrow successfully defended Leopold and Loeb (1924) in getting life
imprisonment instead of death for kidnapping and killing a 13-year-old boy. In 1925, he
defended John T. Scopes, accused of violating a Tennessee law by teaching evolution, in the
"Scopes Monkey Trial". Darrow's autobiography, The Story of My Life, was published in
1932. Heavily creased. Nicked left edge. 1-inch horizontal tear at right background (all
intact).Ink notations in unknown hand on verso.
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