William Jennings Bryan was Secretary of State under President Truman.
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 .	Prohibition	Prohibition in the United States	Darwinism	Darwinism	Christian fundamentalism	Christian fundamentalism	Scopes Trial	Scopes Trial
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 .	John T. Scopes	John T. Scopes	Tennessee	Tennessee	Butler Act	Butler Act	human evolution	human evolution
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 .	33rd	List of Presidents of the United States	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Franklin D. Roosevelt	33rd President of the United States	List of Presidents of the United States	World War II	World War II
Five days after the conclusion of the Scopes case , Bryan died in his sleep .
