His mother Ann Phoebe Dagworthy Charlton was born (February 6, 1756 – 1830), to Arthur Charlton, a tavern keeper, and his wife, Eleanor Harrison of Frederick in the colony of Maryland. Key grew up on the family plantation Terra Rubra in Frederick County, Maryland (now Carroll County).
Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet from Frederick, Maryland, who is best known for writing the lyrics for the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner". Key observed the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in 1814 during the War of 1812.
He graduated from St.John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, in 1796 and read law under his uncle Philip Barton Key who was loyal to the British Crown during the War of Independence.
Key was a devout Episcopalian. Key owned slaves from 1800, during which time abolitionists ridiculed his words, claiming that America was more like the "Land of the Free and Home of the Oppressed".
In 1835, he prosecuted Richard Lawrence for his attempt to assassinate President Jackson at the top steps of the Capitol, the first attempt to kill an American president. ==Key and slavery== Key purchased his first slave in 1800 or 1801 and owned six slaves in 1820.
In 1835, he prosecuted Richard Lawrence for his attempt to assassinate President Jackson at the top steps of the Capitol, the first attempt to kill an American president. ==Key and slavery== Key purchased his first slave in 1800 or 1801 and owned six slaves in 1820.
He married Mary Tayloe Lloyd on January 1, 1802, daughter of Edward Lloyd IV of Wye House and Elizabeth Tayloe, daughter of John Tayloe II of Mount Airy and sister of John Tayloe III of The Octagon House. =="The Star-Spangled Banner"== During the War of 1812, Key and British Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner dined aboard as the guests of Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross.
He took it to music publisher Thomas Carr, who adapted it to the rhythms of composer John Stafford Smith's "To Anacreon in Heaven", a popular tune that Key had already used as a setting for his 1805 song "When the Warrior Returns", celebrating American heroes of the First Barbary War.
He and his family settled in Georgetown in 1805 or 1806, near the new national capital.
He and his family settled in Georgetown in 1805 or 1806, near the new national capital.
He made the first of his many arguments before the United States Supreme Court in 1807.
In 1808, he assisted President Thomas Jefferson's attorney general in United Statesv.Peters. In 1829, Key assisted in the prosecution of Tobias Watkins, former U.S.
Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet from Frederick, Maryland, who is best known for writing the lyrics for the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner". Key observed the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in 1814 during the War of 1812.
He married Mary Tayloe Lloyd on January 1, 1802, daughter of Edward Lloyd IV of Wye House and Elizabeth Tayloe, daughter of John Tayloe II of Mount Airy and sister of John Tayloe III of The Octagon House. =="The Star-Spangled Banner"== During the War of 1812, Key and British Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner dined aboard as the guests of Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross.
Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet from Frederick, Maryland, who is best known for writing the lyrics for the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner". Key observed the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in 1814 during the War of 1812.
John's Episcopal Church in Georgetown and Christ Church in Alexandria (at the time, in the District of Columbia). From 1818 until his death in 1843, Key was associated with the American Bible Society.
In 1835, he prosecuted Richard Lawrence for his attempt to assassinate President Jackson at the top steps of the Capitol, the first attempt to kill an American president. ==Key and slavery== Key purchased his first slave in 1800 or 1801 and owned six slaves in 1820.
In 1808, he assisted President Thomas Jefferson's attorney general in United Statesv.Peters. In 1829, Key assisted in the prosecution of Tobias Watkins, former U.S.
He freed some of his slaves in the 1830s, paying one ex-slave as his farm foreman.
His mother Ann Phoebe Dagworthy Charlton was born (February 6, 1756 – 1830), to Arthur Charlton, a tavern keeper, and his wife, Eleanor Harrison of Frederick in the colony of Maryland. Key grew up on the family plantation Terra Rubra in Frederick County, Maryland (now Carroll County).
He freed seven slaves in the 1830s, one of whom continued to work for him for wages as his farm's foreman, supervising several slaves.
The ACS was not supported by most abolitionists or free blacks of the time, but the organization's work would eventually lead to the creation of Liberia in 1847. ===Anti-abolitionism=== In the early 1830s American thinking on slavery changed quite abruptly.
He also handled the Petticoat affair concerning Secretary of War John Eaton, and he served as the attorney for Sam Houston in 1832 during his trial for assaulting Representative William Stanbery of Ohio.
He was nominated for District Attorney for the District of Columbia by President Andrew Jackson, where he served from 1833 to 1841.
After years as an adviser to President Jackson, Key was nominated by the President to District Attorney for the District of Columbia in 1833.
He served from 1833 to 1841 while also handling his own private legal cases.
In 1833, he secured a grand jury indictment against Benjamin Lundy, editor of the anti-slavery publication Genius of Universal Emancipation, and his printer William Greer, for libel after Lundy published an article that declared, "There is neither mercy nor justice for colored people in this district [of Columbia]".
Key also published a prose work called The Power of Literature, and Its Connection with Religion in 1834. ==Death and legacy== On January 11, 1843, Key died at the home of his daughter Elizabeth Howard in Baltimore from pleurisy at age 63.
In 1835, he prosecuted Richard Lawrence for his attempt to assassinate President Jackson at the top steps of the Capitol, the first attempt to kill an American president. ==Key and slavery== Key purchased his first slave in 1800 or 1801 and owned six slaves in 1820.
This public and humiliating defeat, as well as family tragedies in 1835, diminished Key's political ambition.
Lundy left town rather than face trial; Greer was acquitted. ====Prosecution of Reuben Crandall==== In a larger unsuccessful prosecution, in August 1836 Key obtained an indictment against Reuben Crandall, brother of controversial Connecticut teacher Prudence Crandall, who had recently moved to Washington, D.C.
In an April 1837 trial that attracted nationwide attention and that congressmen attended, Key charged that Crandall's publications instigated slaves to rebel.
The quote is taken from an 1838 letter that Key wrote to Reverend Benjamin Tappan of Maine who had sent Key a questionnaire about the attitudes of Southern religious institutions about slavery.
He successfully opposed an abolitionist resolution presented to that group around 1838. Key also helped found two Episcopal seminaries, one in Baltimore and the other across the Potomac River in Alexandria (the Virginia Theological Seminary).
He resigned as District Attorney in 1840.
He was nominated for District Attorney for the District of Columbia by President Andrew Jackson, where he served from 1833 to 1841.
He served from 1833 to 1841 while also handling his own private legal cases.
Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet from Frederick, Maryland, who is best known for writing the lyrics for the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner". Key observed the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in 1814 during the War of 1812.
John's Episcopal Church in Georgetown and Christ Church in Alexandria (at the time, in the District of Columbia). From 1818 until his death in 1843, Key was associated with the American Bible Society.
Key also published a prose work called The Power of Literature, and Its Connection with Religion in 1834. ==Death and legacy== On January 11, 1843, Key died at the home of his daughter Elizabeth Howard in Baltimore from pleurisy at age 63.
In 1846 one daughter, Alice, married U.S. Senator George H.
The ACS was not supported by most abolitionists or free blacks of the time, but the organization's work would eventually lead to the creation of Liberia in 1847. ===Anti-abolitionism=== In the early 1830s American thinking on slavery changed quite abruptly.
He was initially interred in Old Saint Paul's Cemetery in the vault of John Eager Howard but in 1866, his body was moved to his family plot in Frederick at Mount Olivet Cemetery. The Key Monument Association erected a memorial in 1898 and the remains of both Francis Scott Key and his wife, Mary Tayloe Lloyd, were placed in a crypt in the base of the monument. Despite several efforts to preserve it, the Francis Scott Key residence was ultimately dismantled in1947.
Story in Rome in 1885–87.
He was initially interred in Old Saint Paul's Cemetery in the vault of John Eager Howard but in 1866, his body was moved to his family plot in Frederick at Mount Olivet Cemetery. The Key Monument Association erected a memorial in 1898 and the remains of both Francis Scott Key and his wife, Mary Tayloe Lloyd, were placed in a crypt in the base of the monument. Despite several efforts to preserve it, the Francis Scott Key residence was ultimately dismantled in1947.
The original confusion around this quote arises from ambiguities in the 1937 biography of Key by Edward S.
Key's Georgetown home, which was dismantled in 1947 (as part of construction for the Whitehurst Freeway), was located on M Street NW, in the area between the Key Bridge and the intersection of M Street and Whitehurst Freeway.
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