Editing John T. Scopes (section)

==Life after the trial==
[[File:J_T_Scopes.jpg|thumb|left|c. 1925.]]
The results of the Scopes Trial affected Scopes professionally and personally. His public image was mocked by animation, cartoons and other media during the succeeding years. Scopes himself largely shunned publicity.

During September 1925, he enrolled in the graduate school of the [[University of Chicago]] to finish his studies of [[geology]].&nbsp;Evidence of harassment by the press was mentioned by Frank Thorne:{{clarify|date=December 2018|reason=Who is Thorne? Relevance/relationship to Scopes?}} "You may be interested to know that Mr. John T. Scopes of anti-evolution trial fame expects to take up the study of geology as a graduate student of Chicago this fall…Please do what you can to protect him from the importunities of Chicago reporters….He is a modest and unassuming young chap, and has been subjected to a great deal more limelight than he likes."<ref>Frank Thorne to Donald Glassman, September 14, 1925, Science Service Record (RU7091), Box 83, Folder I.</ref>  A year later, the Tennessee Supreme Court decision of 1926 prompted the press to pursue Scopes again. During this time, he wrote to Thorne, "I am tired of fooling with them".<ref>J.T. Scopes to Frank Thorne, [no date on letter other than "Sunday" but it was received in the Science Service office on February 8, 1927], Science Service Records (RU7091), Box 90, Folder 5. Scopes was referring to the local chapter house of the Gamma Alpha Graduate Scientific Fraternity. See also John T. Scopes to Kirtley F. Mather, January 24, 1927, Denison University Archives, 12P MI Box 19, K. B. Bork Biography of Kirtley Mather, "Scopes, John T./Scopes Trial."</ref>&nbsp; It is evident that the media's attention was affecting Scopes emotionally.

Even worse, the [[Great Depression]] affected his career. After his graduation, he was "barred"<ref>See, for example, Frank Thorne to Winterton C. Curtis, March 12, 1931, Science Service Records (RU7091), Box 123, Folder 4; and J. Harlen Bretz to Frank Thorne, December 7, 1931, Science Service Records (RU7091), Box 122, Folder 7.</ref> from career opportunities in Tennessee, forcing him and his wife to relocate to his childhood home in Kentucky in about 1930.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

Having failed in education, Scopes attempted to build a political career and he began an unsuccessful bid as a candidate of the [[Socialist Party of America|Socialist Party]] for the U.S. House of Representatives for Kentucky's only [[Kentucky's at-large congressional district|at-large congressional campaign]], during 1932.<ref>"Scopes of Evolution Frame Seeks Congress Seat," Chicago Daily Tribune, August 13, 1932; "Scopes Names in House Race," Los Angeles Times, August 13, 1932; "'Monkey Trial' Figure Named for Congress," New York Times, August 13, 1932; and "Kentucky Official Majority Is 185,858," Washington Post, November 29, 1932.</ref>&nbsp;Eventually Scopes worked as an oil expert for the United Production Corporation, later known as the [[United Gas Corporation]]. There, he first worked in [[Beeville, Texas]], then, he worked in the company's [[Houston]] office until 1940, and later, he worked in Shreveport, Louisiana, where he stayed until his death. United Gas merged into what was [[Pennzoil]] during 1968.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Reframing Scopes: Journalists, Scientists, and Lost Photographs from the trial of the Century|last=Lafollette|first=Marcel Chotkowskt|publisher=University Press of Kansas|year=2008|location=Lawrence, Kansas|pages=122}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.platts.com/2015/06/24/evolution-petroleum-geologist-scopes-monkey-trial/|title=The evolution of a petroleum geologist after the Scopes Monkey Trial}}</ref>

Scopes attended the 1960 premiere of ''[[Inherit the Wind (1960 film)|Inherit The Wind]]'' and he also participated in the celebration of John T. Scopes Day.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Reframing the Scopes: Journalists, Scientists, and Lost Photographs form the Trial of the Century|last=Lafollette|first=Marcel Chotkowski|publisher=University of Kansas|year=2008|location=Lawrence, Kansas|pages=123}}</ref>

Scopes and the story of his trial were featured in an episode of the television game show ''[[To Tell the Truth|To Tell The Truth]]'' on October 10, 1960.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/4CVH3IISko0 Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160108071028/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CVH3IISko0&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CVH3IISko0| title = To Tell the Truth - John Thomas Scopes, subject of "Inherit The Wind" (Oct 10, 1960) | website=[[YouTube]]| date = 7 January 2016 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In June 1967, Scopes wrote ''Center of the Storm: Memoirs of John T. Scopes''.{{sfn|Scopes|Presley|1967}} The Butler Act was repealed that same year.