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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 December 2024. American lawyer and poet (1779–1843) Francis Scott Key Key c. 1825 4th United States Attorney for the District of Columbia In office 1833–1841 President Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buren Preceded by Thomas Swann Succeeded by Philip Richard Fendall II Personal details Born (1779-08-01 ...
Philip Barton Key II (April 5, 1818 – February 27, 1859) [1] was an American lawyer who served as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. [2] He is most famous for his public affair with Teresa Bagioli Sickles , and his eventual murder at the hands of her husband, Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York .
Key House in the late 19th-century. The Key House, also referred to as the Key Mansion, was the Washington, D.C., home of lawyer and poet Francis Scott Key from 1805 to 1830. It was built in 1795 and demolished in the 1940s for a highway ramp. The Key House was built in 1795 by a real estate developer and merchant.
“The Star-Spangled Banner” was composed by Francis Scott Key, a Maryland attorney and poet, who was inspired by watching soldiers raise the flag over Baltimore’s Fort McHenry after a ...
Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown on Tuesday announced that the state has filed a lawsuit against the owners of the M/V Dali cargo ship for causing the collision on March 26, 2024, that ...
Her attorney was Francis Scott Key, who convinced the court to grant her a certification of protection to live independently while the case was pending. In the summer of 1832, the case went to trial, and the jury found in Williams' favor on July 2, 1832. Williams won the case, and along with it, freedom for herself, her children, and her ...
Salvage crews work to free the cargo ship Dali after if collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the Patapsco River on May 10, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland.
From Congress's creation of Washington, D.C.'s municipal government in 1802 until 1824, it did not have a city attorney position. Various local attorneys were retained for particular matters, including Francis Scott Key, best known as the author of the text of The Star-Spangled Banner, who was paid $60 in 1820 for legal services.