Biographies of Key Figures in the Scopes Trial
The Man Who Started It All
Charles Darwin

The Man Who Set the Date for Creation
Bishop James Ussher

Author of the Anti-Evolution Act
John Washington Butler

The Man Behind the Scopes Trial
George Rappalyea

The Defendant
John Scopes

The Visiting Prosecuting Attorney
William Jennings Bryan

The Most Famous of the Defense Attorneys
Clarence Darrow

A Scientific Expert
Maynard Metcalf

The Reporter from Baltimore
H.L. Mencken

Brief Notes on Other Trial Participants
Ben G. McKenzie , Prosecutor
A. Thomas Stewart, Prosecutor
Arthur Garfield Hays , Defense Attorney
Dudley Field Malone , Defense Attorney
John Randolph Neal, Defense Attorney
Judge John T. Raulston