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George Rappleyea
George Washington Rappleyea was a New Yorker who was a metallurgical engineer and the manager of the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company in Dayton, Tennessee in the summer of 1925 when he became the chief architect of the Scopes Trial. At a meeting at Robinson's Drug Store it was Rappleyea who convinced a group of Dayton businessmen to sponsor a test case of the Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in the state's schools, and convinced John T.
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