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3 unusual facts about Philip Barton Key


Philip Barton Key

He was kept as prisoner for a month in Havana, Cuba, before being paroled and sent to New York City until the end of the war.

Philip Barton Key (April 12, 1757 – July 28, 1815) was a Representative from the third district of Maryland, and later a United States federal judge.

Philip Key

Philip Barton Key, Representative of the State of Maryland in the United States Congress from 1807 to 1812


Insanity defense

This defense was first used by U.S. Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York in 1859 after he had killed his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key, but was most used during the 1940s and 1950s.

John Ross Key

His brother Philip Barton Key, also an attorney arranged for his nephew Francis to study law under his friend, Judge Jeremiah Townley Chase in 1800 and with whom he would later be a partner in Georgetown.


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