Tom Stewart

Crump but less so than Tennessee's other Senator of the time Memphian Kenneth McKellar. Except for the willingness of William Jennings Bryan to be cross-examined by Clarence Darrow Stewart's positions controlled the trial and the Scopes defense had no recourse but to ask the jury to convict the defendant so the case could be appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court (which overturned the conviction on a legal technicality but upheld the constitutionality of the Butler Act). He moved back to Jasper Tennessee in 1915 and practised there until 1919 then moved to Winchester Tennessee.