| Birth: | Apr. 5, 1818 | | Death: | Feb. 27, 1859 | 
Murder Victim. He was the son of Francis Scott Key, the author of the "Star Spangled Banner." In February 1859 he was shot and killed by Congressman (later Civil War Union General) Daniel E. Sickles in Lafayette Square across the street from the White House for allegedly having an affair with Sickles’ wife. Sickles stood trial for the crime and his attorney, Edwin Stanton, later Secretary of War under Lincoln, got him acquitted on a plea of "temporary insanity”. This was the first time this plea was ever successfully presented in a United States court. After the trial Sickles admitted to the judge that he meant to kill Key, but he was then protected by the “Double Jeopardy” which prevents a person from being tried for the same crime twice. The cast iron fence that stood around Lafayette Square in 1859 now stands around the Gettysburg National Cemetery, brought there through Sickles urging. Buried in Washington, DC’s Oak Hill Cemetery, Philip Barton Key is also memorialized in a cenotaph in his son-in-law’s family plot in Baltimore’s Old Westminster Cemetery. (bio by: Ethan F. Bishop)
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Parents:
Francis Scott Key (1779 - 1843)
Mary Tayloe "Polly" Lloyd Key (1784 - 1859)
Children:
Mary Llyod Key Nevins (1801 - 1834)*
*Calculated relationship
Search Amazon for Philip Key | | | Burial:
Westminster Burial Ground
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Baltimore
Baltimore City
Maryland, USA
*Cenotaph [?] |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Originally Created by: Russ Dodge
Record added: Sep 14, 2004
Find A Grave Memorial# 9458197 |
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Hope that your soul is at peace, and you are beyond the horrible fear and pain of those last moments.
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J.B.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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