In 1843, Key died at the home of his daughter Elizabeth Howard in Baltimore from pleurisy and was initially interred in Old Saint Paul's Cemetery in the vault of John Eager Howard.
In 1835, Key prosecuted Richard Lawrence for his unsuccessful attempt to assassinate President of the United States Andrew Jackson. He published a prose work called The Power of Literature, and Its Connection with Religion in 1834. House of Representatives for assaulting another Congressman.
U.S.S FRANCIS SCOTT KEY TRIAL
In 1832, Key served as the attorney for Sam Houston during his trial in the U.S. The United States adopted the motto "In God We Trust" by law in 1956.įrom 1818 until his death in 1843, Key was associated with the American Bible Society. In the fourth stanza Key urged the adoption of "In God is our Trust" as the national motto. Under this name, the song was adopted as the American national anthem, first by an Executive Order from President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 (which had little effect beyond requiring military bands to play it) and then by a Congressional resolution in 1931, signed by President Herbert Hoover. (Key used the "star spangled" flag imagery in the earlier song.) It has become better known as "The Star Spangled Banner". He intended to fit it to the rhythms of composer John Stafford Smith's "To Anacreon in Heaven", a popular tune Key had already used as a setting for his 1805 song "When the Warrior Returns," celebrating U.S. On the way back to Baltimore, he was inspired to write a poem describing his experience, "Defence of Fort McHenry", which he published in the Patriot on September 20, 1814. As a result of this, Key was unable to do anything but watch the bombarding of the American forces at Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore on the night of September 13–14, 1814.Īt dawn, Key was able to see an American flag still waving and reported this to the prisoners below deck. Skinner, Key, and Beanes were not allowed to return to their own sloop: they had become familiar with the strength and position of the British units and with the British intent to attack Baltimore. Beanes was a resident of Upper Marlboro, Maryland and had been captured by the British after he placed rowdy stragglers under citizen's arrest with a group of men. Skinner and Key were there to negotiate the release of prisoners, one being Dr.
John's College, Annapolis, Maryland and also learned under his uncle Philip Barton Key.ĭuring the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the American Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral Sir George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross. His great-grandparents were Philip Key and Susanna Barton Gardiner, both born in London, England, immigrated to Maryland in 1726. His father John Ross Key was a lawyer, a judge and an officer in the Continental Army. Francis Scott Key was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner".įrancis Scott Key was born to Ann Phoebe Penn Dagworthy (Charlton) and Captain John Ross Key at the family plantation Terra Rubra in what was Frederick County and is now Carroll County, Maryland.
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