Philip Barton Key (1818-1859)

Philip Barton Key ( 1818 , Georgetown, DC - 27 February 1859 , Washington, DC ) was a United States Attorney for the District Of Columbia , the son of Francis Scott Key , and a Murder victim.

In 1859 , Congressman Daniel Sickles shot and killed Phillip Barton Key, for having conducted an affair with his wife Teresa Bagioli Sickles . The murder took place on Lafayette Square , just north of the White House. Sickles was acquitted, on the basis of Temporary Insanity , in one of the most controversial trials of the 19th Century .

Key at the time of his death was serving as the United States Attorney for the District Of Columbia .

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