Claim: William Jennings Bryan was Secretary of State under President Truman.
Evidence: After 1920 , he turned to Christian fundamentalism ; he supported Prohibition and attacked Darwinism and evolution , most famously at the Scopes Trial in 1925 in Tennessee.
The Scopes Trial , formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial , was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher , John T. Scopes , was accused of violating Tennessee 's Butler Act , which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.
Harry S. Truman -LRB- May 8 , 1884December 26 , 1972 -RRB- was an American politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States -LRB- 1945 -- 53 -RRB- , assuming that office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt during the waning months of World War II.
Five days after the conclusion of the Scopes case , Bryan died in his sleep.