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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 ...
The court ruled in their favor, and both mother and daughter were freed from slavery. Francis B. Murdoch was a freedom suit attorney who filed close to one-third of all freedom suit petitions in St. Louis. [37]
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.
Key, Francis Scott (1836). A part of a speech pronounced by Francis Scott Key, Esq. on the trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. before the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, at the March term thereof, 1836, on an indictment for publishing libels with intent to excite sedition and insurrection among the slaves and free coloured people of said ...
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 ...
Francis Bok (born 1979), Dinka slave from South Sudan, now an abolitionist and author in the United States. Francis Jackson (born 1815 to 1820), born free, he was kidnapped in 1850 and sold into slavery and was finally freed in 1855 with the resolution of Francis Jackson v. John W. Deshazer.
Francis Scott Key, author of The Star-Spangled Banner, was a slave owner and a defender of slavery. In his position as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia , he was in charge of criminal prosecutions in the District, all of which prosecutions were for violations of federal law, as no state law was relevant.
Francis Scott Key Memorial is a park and memorial located in the District of Columbia neighborhood of Georgetown; at the intersection of 34th and M Streets, NW.This 0.77 acre (3,104 m²) [1] site is administered by the National Park Service as a part of Rock Creek Park but is not contiguous with that park.