Biography

Philip Mauro was a lawyer who practiced before the Supreme Court. One of the most important occasions where his legal work was requisitioned was in connection with the famous Tennessee-Scopes trial

Scopes Trial

The Scopes Trial—formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and informally known as the Scopes Monkey Trial—was a landmark American legal case in 1925 in which high school science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act which made it unlawful to...

in 1925. The brief or argument which Bryan used, and thereby won the case, was prepared by Philip Mauro.

Philip Mauro was also a writer. His works includes God's Pilgrims, The Church, the Churches and the Kingdom, The Hope of Israel, Ruth, the Satisfied Stranger, The Wonders of Bible Chronology, The Last Call to the Godly Remnant, More Than a Prophet, Dispensationalism Justifies the Crucifixion and Things Which Soon Must Come to Pass.