Lawyer, social reformer, author; born in Kinsman, Ohio. Admitted to the bar in 1878, he began as a small-town Ohio lawyer, but moved to
Chicago in 1887. Political involvement with reform-minded Democrats led to a successful civil practice, then to two decades of labor law,
ending in 1913. He gained a national reputation defending Eugene V. Debs and other railway union leaders in connection with the 1894 Pullman
strike. Later came sensational criminal cases that displayed his eminence as a defense lawyer, especially the Loeb-Leopold kidnap, murder,
and ransom case (1924) and the Scopes anti-evolution "monkey trial" (1925) in which he argued against William Jennings Bryan (this is the
case celebrated in Jerome Lawrence's play, Inherit the Wind). He opposed capital punishment and was a popular public speaker on religious,
social, political, scientific, and literary issues. One of his law partners (1903-11) was the poet Edgar Lee Masters. His many books
include Crime: Its Cause and Treatment (1922).
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