Francis Scott Key
Francis Scott Key was born in Terra Rubra, Maryland, United States on August 1st, 1779 and is the Composer. At the age of 63, Francis Scott Key biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Legal career
For many years, Key was a respected prosecutor in Frederick, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., with extensive real estate and litigation experience. In 1805 or 1866, he and his family settled in Georgetown, the new national capital. He was assisting his uncle Philip Barton Key in Aaron Burr's thrilling espionage trial and his expulsion of Ohio Senator John Smith. In 1807, he made the first of his many appeals before the United States Supreme Court. In 1808, he aided President Thomas Jefferson's attorney general in the United States vs. Peters.
Key was involved in the criminal trial of Tobias Watkins, a former US Treasury auditor under President John Quincy Adams, for misappropriating public funds in 1829. During his appeal for attacking Senator William Stanbery of Ohio, he also worked on the Petticoat case involving Secretary of War John Eaton, and he served as the prosecutor for Sam Houston in 1832. Key was nominated by the President to District Attorney for the District of Columbia in 1833 after years as an advisor to President Jackson. He served from 1833 to 1841, while also handling his own personal legal cases. Richard Lawrence was charged in 1835 with plotting to assassinate President Jackson at the Capitol's top steps, the first attempt to murder an American president.