John T. Scopes
American schoolteacher
Born on: August 3, 1900Died on: October 21, 1970
Aged: 70 years 79 days (842 months)
Birth Sign: Leo
John Thomas Scopes was an American teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee schools.
He was tried in a case known as the Scopes trial and was found guilty and fined $100.
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