Dudley Field Malone

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Dudley Field Malone (Born New York, New York, June 3, 1882 - Died October 5, 1950), son of Tammany Democratic official William C. Malone and Rose (McKenny) Malone, was a lawyer and member of the Democratic Party who served as the collector of the Port of New York (1913-1917) and resigned to protest the failure of the Wilson Administration to advocate a Woman Suffrage Amendment.

In 1920 he ran for Governor of New York on the Farmer-Labor Party ticket, earning 49,953 votes versus 1,335,617 votes for winning Republican Nathan L. Miller, 1,261,729 for incumbent Democrat Al Smith and 171,907 for Socialist Joseph Cannon. ^[1]

He subsequently served as Third Assistant Secretary for William Jennings Bryan when the Great Commoner was Secretary of State for Woodrow Wilson. Married 1921 to the writer and economist Doris Stevens, and in 1930 to Edna Louise Johnson.

After that Malone was an international divorce lawyer. In 1925 Malone was one of the lawyers who defended John T. Scopes in the famous "Monkey Trial". Responding to Bryan's argument against admitting scientific testimony, Malone gave the greatest speech of the trial in defense of academic freedom. After the trial, Malone returned to his divorce business. Business declined, probably as a result of Malone's drinking problem, and in the 1930s Malone launched a new career as a dramatic actor, playing primarily bit roles most notably playing Winston Churchill in the film Mission to Moscow (1943).

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1. ^ Johnson, Willis Fletcher, Roscoe C. E. (Roscoe Conkling Ensign) Brown, Walter Whipple Spooner, Willis Holly (1922). History of the State of New York, Political and Governmental. The Syracuse Press, 347 - 348, 350.