Biography

Dudley Field Malone has served as William Jennings Bryan's Third Assistant Secretary when the Great Commoner was Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State. After that Malone was an international divorce lawyer. In 1925 Malone was one of the lawyers who defended John T. Scopes in the famous "Monkey Trial". Responding to Bryan's argument against admitting scientific testimony, Malone gave the greatest speech of the trial in defense of Academic Freedom.
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Dudley Field Malone is an American attorney, politician, activist, and actor. Malone is best remembered as one of the most prominent attorneys in the United States during the decade of the 1920s and for his unsuccessful 1920 campaign for Governor of New York.

Malone was born on the West Side of Manhattan. He was the son of William C. Malone of New York City, a Tammany Hall Democratic official, and Rose McKenny Malone. He graduated from the College of St. Francis Xavier in 1903 and studied law at Fordham Law School, graduating in 1905. In 1907, he began practicing law and also became active in the Democratic Party in New York. In 1912, he helped organize Woodrow Wilson's successful primary and general election campaign for President.

When Wilson took office in 1913, he rewarded Malone by appointing him Third Assistant Secretary of State. Later in 1913, Wilson appointed him Collector of the Port of New York, an important patronage position. He served as Collector until 1917, when he resigned and was succeeded by Byron R. Newton, the former publicity director of Wilson's presidential campaign.

In 1920, Malone ran for Governor of New York as the candidate of the newly organized Farmer-Labor Party. In the 1920 election, he got only 69,908 votes out of over 2.8 million cast. From 1920 on, he devoted himself to his law practice, specializing in international divorce cases of wealthy individuals and becoming known as 'the greatest international divorce lawyer'.
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Assistant Secretary of State for President Woodrow Wilson. Resembled Winston Churchill, whom he played in Mission to Moscow (1943).