Clarence Darrow
1857-1938
Renowned trial lawyer & free speech activist
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Clarence Darrow had been practicing in Ohio as a corporation lawyer when he arrived in Chicago in 1887. There he became associated with Judge (later governor) John P. Altgeld, and under his influence turned to labor law. Within a few years Darrow defended, among others, Eugene V. Debs who was charged with contempt in the 1894 Pullman strike, and William D. Haywood, accused of conspiracy to assassinate the former governor of Idaho...
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Correspondence, mainly sixty-one letters (some with transcriptions) from Clarence Darrow to Mary Field Parton, and a few other letters to and from Darrow, including two from miner J. Hanrahan and the L.A. County Socialist Party, supportive of Darrow during his trial for bribery in 1912. Also, a small collection of Margaret Parton Hussey's letters concerning her mother's papers and a sketch of her mother's relationship with Darrow...
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