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Philip Barton Key II
Philip Barton Key II
	Harper's Weekly engraving of Philip Barton Key from a photograph by Mathew Brady
8th United States Attorney for the District of Columbia
	In office; September 6, 1853 – February 27, 1859
President	Franklin Pierce; James Buchanan;
Preceded by	Philip Richard Fendall II
Succeeded by	Robert Ould
Personal details
Born	April 5, 1818; Georgetown, Washington, D.C., U.S.
Died	February 27, 1859 (aged 40); Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting place	Oak Hill Cemetery; Washington, D.C., U.S.
Spouse	Ellen Swan
Children	4
Parents	Francis Scott Key; Mary Tayloe Lloyd;
Occupation	Lawyer

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Philip Barton Key II (April 5, 1818 – February 27, 1859)^[1] was an American lawyer who served as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.^[2] He is most famous for his public affair with Teresa Bagioli Sickles, and his eventual murder at the hands of her husband, Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York. Sickles defended himself by adopting a defense of temporary insanity, the first time the defense had been successfully used in the United States.^[2]^[3]

Biography

Born in Georgetown, D.C., Key was the son of Francis Scott Key^[4]^[5] and the great-nephew of Philip Barton Key. He was also a nephew of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney.^[4]^[5] He married Ellen Swan, the daughter of a Baltimore attorney, on November 18, 1845.^[1] Allegedly the most handsome man in Washington^[6] and by 1859 a widower with four children, Key was known to be flirtatious with many women.^[7]^[a]

Key was appointed to his father's former position, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, by President Pierce in September 1853,^[8] during a recess of the Senate;^[9] the Senate later confirmed his nomination in March 1854.^[10] Four years later, he was nominated,^[11] and confirmed again,^[12] for another four-year term; thus, he would serve until his death.

*Harper's Weekly* engraving of Mrs. Sickles from a photograph of Mathew Brady

Sometime in the spring of 1858, Teresa Sickles began an affair with Key.^[2] Dan Sickles, though a serial adulterer himself, had accused his much-younger wife of adultery several times during their five-year marriage, and she had repeatedly denied it to his satisfaction.^[4] But then Sickles received a poison pen letter^[13] informing him of his wife's affair with Key.^[14]^[2]^[4] He confronted his wife, who confessed to the affair.^[2] Sickles then made his wife write out her confession on paper.^[15]

Death

Sickles saw Key sitting on a bench outside the Sickles home on February 27, 1859, signalling to Teresa, and confronted him.^[16]^[2]^[4]^[15] Sickles rushed outside into Lafayette Square, cried "Key, you scoundrel, you have dishonored my home; you must die",^[17] and with a pistol repeatedly shot the unarmed Key.^[2]^[4] Key was taken into the nearby Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House, where he died some time later.^[18]

Sickles was acquitted based on temporary insanity, a crime of passion, in one of the most controversial trials of the 19th century.^[19] It was the first successful use of the defense in the United States.^[20] One of Sickles' attorneys, Edwin Stanton, later became the Secretary of War. Newspapers declared Sickles a hero for "saving" women from Key.^[20] Years later, while attending the theater in New York City, Sickles became aware of the presence of Key's son, James Key, in the audience; both men watched each other throughout the performance. Nothing else happened.^[21]

Key is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, with a dedicatory in his son-in-law's family plot in Westminster Hall and Burying Ground in Baltimore.^[22]

Notes

^ Before he married Ellen Swan, Key had been engaged to Virginia Timberlake, a daughter of Peggy Eaton, the center of the Petticoat affair that bedeviled the cabinet of President Andrew Jackson. One of Key's great-granddaughters was the 1960s style icon Pauline de Rothschild.

References

^ ^a ^b Richardson, Hester Dorsey. Side-Lights on Maryland History: With Sketches of Early Maryland Families. Baltimore, Md.: Williams and Wilkins company, 1913.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Gallagher, Gary W. Three Days at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-87338-629-9
^ Spiegel, Allen D. Murder and Madness: Military Matters and Managed Medicine: Memorable Milestones and Moments. Charleston, S.C.: Heritage Books, 2007. ISBN 0-7884-4079-9; Wylie, Paul R. The Irish General: Thomas Francis Meagher. Stillwater, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. ISBN 0-8061-3847-5
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Walther, Eric H. The Shattering of the Union: America in the 1850s. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. ISBN 0-8420-2799-8
^ ^a ^b Flower, Frank Abial. Edwin McMasters Stanton: The Autocrat of Rebellion, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. New York: W.W. Wilson, 1905.
^ Taylor, John M. William Henry Seward: Lincoln's Right Hand. New York: Brassey's, 1996. ISBN 1-57488-119-1
^ Goode, James M. Capital Losses: A Cultural History of Washington's Destroyed Buildings. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. ISBN 0-87474-479-2
^ "From Washington". The Times-Picayune. September 16, 1853. p. 2. Retrieved December 18, 2019.
^ "Senate Executive Journal --THURSDAY, February 2, 1854". memory.loc.gov. February 2, 1854. Retrieved December 18, 2019.
^ "Senate Executive Journal --TUESDAY, March 14, 1854". memory.loc.gov. March 14, 1854. Retrieved December 18, 2019.
^ "Senate Executive Journal --WEDNESDAY, March 24, 1858". memory.loc.gov. March 24, 1858. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
^ "Senate Executive Journal --TUESDAY, March 30, 1858". memory.loc.gov. March 30, 1858. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
^ from assumption.edu Archived 2006-09-14 at the Wayback Machine "The stories told how Sickles had received an anonymous letter on Thursday, February 24th, informing him of his wife's relationship with Key."
^ The anonymous letter was reproduced in Harper's: Letter image
^ ^a ^b Hartog, Hendrik. Man and Wife in America: A History. Reprint ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-674-00811-1
^ Tagg, Larry. The Generals of Gettysburg. Campbell, Calif.: Savas Publishing, 1998. ISBN 1-882810-30-9. p. 62.
^ Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton: The Autocrat of Rebellion, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1905, p. 73.
^ Smith, Hal H. "Historic Washington Homes." Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington. 1908.
^ Twain, Mark (2010). The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume One. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. pp. 566. ISBN 978-0-520-26719-0.
^ ^a ^b "Crime History", The Washington Examiner, Feb. 27, 2012, p. 8.
^ Brandt, Nat. The Congressman Who Got Away With Murder. Syracuse, N.Y.: University of Syracuse Press, 1991. ISBN 0-8156-0251-0. p. 213.
^ Murder of the U.S. Attorney

External links

One of Teresa's Sickles escorts was Philip Barton Key
Philip Barton Key II at Find a Grave
The Political Graveyard

[8] Before he married Ellen Swan, Key had been engaged to Virginia Timberlake, a daughter of Peggy Eaton, the center of the Petticoat affair that bedeviled the cabinet of President Andrew Jackson. One of Key's great-granddaughters was the 1960s style icon Pauline de Rothschild.

[Richardson-1] Richardson, Hester Dorsey. Side-Lights on Maryland History: With Sketches of Early Maryland Families. Baltimore, Md.: Williams and Wilkins company, 1913.

[Gallagher-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Gallagher, Gary W. Three Days at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-87338-629-9

[3] Spiegel, Allen D. Murder and Madness: Military Matters and Managed Medicine: Memorable Milestones and Moments. Charleston, S.C.: Heritage Books, 2007. ISBN 0-7884-4079-9; Wylie, Paul R. The Irish General: Thomas Francis Meagher. Stillwater, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. ISBN 0-8061-3847-5

[Walther-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Walther, Eric H. The Shattering of the Union: America in the 1850s. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. ISBN 0-8420-2799-8

[Flower-5] Flower, Frank Abial. Edwin McMasters Stanton: The Autocrat of Rebellion, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. New York: W.W. Wilson, 1905.

[6] Taylor, John M. William Henry Seward: Lincoln's Right Hand. New York: Brassey's, 1996. ISBN 1-57488-119-1

[7] Goode, James M. Capital Losses: A Cultural History of Washington's Destroyed Buildings. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. ISBN 0-87474-479-2

[9] "From Washington". The Times-Picayune. September 16, 1853. p. 2. Retrieved December 18, 2019.

[10] "Senate Executive Journal --THURSDAY, February 2, 1854". memory.loc.gov. February 2, 1854. Retrieved December 18, 2019.

[11] "Senate Executive Journal --TUESDAY, March 14, 1854". memory.loc.gov. March 14, 1854. Retrieved December 18, 2019.

[12] "Senate Executive Journal --WEDNESDAY, March 24, 1858". memory.loc.gov. March 24, 1858. Retrieved 2019-12-18.

[13] "Senate Executive Journal --TUESDAY, March 30, 1858". memory.loc.gov. March 30, 1858. Retrieved 2019-12-18.

[14] rom assumption.edu Archived 2006-09-14 at the Wayback Machine "The stories told how Sickles had received an anonymous letter on Thursday, February 24th, informing him of his wife's relationship with Key."

[15] The anonymous letter was reproduced in Harper's: Letter image

[Hartog-16] Hartog, Hendrik. Man and Wife in America: A History. Reprint ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-674-00811-1

[17] Tagg, Larry. The Generals of Gettysburg. Campbell, Calif.: Savas Publishing, 1998. ISBN 1-882810-30-9. p. 62.

[18] Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton: The Autocrat of Rebellion, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1905, p. 73.

[Smith-19] Smith, Hal H. "Historic Washington Homes." Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington. 1908.

[20] Twain, Mark (2010). The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume One. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. pp. 566. ISBN 978-0-520-26719-0.

[BrandEx-21] "Crime History", The Washington Examiner, Feb. 27, 2012, p. 8.

[22] Brandt, Nat. The Congressman Who Got Away With Murder. Syracuse, N.Y.: University of Syracuse Press, 1991. ISBN 0-8156-0251-0. p. 213.

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-{{for|other people with the same name|Philip Key}}
+{{For|other people with the same name|Philip Key (disambiguation)}}
-[[Image:HarpersMagazinePhilipBartonKey.jpg|thumb|right|''[[Harper's Weekly]]'' engraving, from a photograph by [[Mathew Brady]]]]
+{{Infobox officeholder
-[[Image:Sickles homicide.jpg|thumb|right|''[[Harper's Weekly]]'' engraving of [[Daniel Sickles]] shooting Key.]]
+  | name             = Philip Barton Key II
-'''Philip Barton Key''' ([[April 5]], [[1818]]&ndash;[[February 27]], [[1859]]) was a [[United States Attorney for the District of Columbia]].
+  | occupation       = [[Lawyer]]
+  | image            = HarpersMagazinePhilipBartonKey.jpg
+  | image_size       =
+  | caption          = ''[[Harper's Weekly]]'' engraving of Philip Barton Key from a photograph by [[Mathew Brady]]
+  | order            = 8th
+  | office           = United States Attorney for the District of Columbia
+  | president        = {{ubl|[[Franklin Pierce]]|[[James Buchanan]]}}
+  | term_start       = September 6, 1853
+  | term_end         = February 27, 1859
+  | predecessor      = [[Philip Richard Fendall II]]
+  | successor        = [[Robert Ould]]
+  | birth_date       = {{birth date|1818|4|5}}
+  | birth_place      = [[Georgetown, Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
+  | nationality      = [[Americans|American]]
+  | spouse           = Ellen Swan
+  | death_date       = {{death date and age|1859|2|27|1818|4|5}}
+  | death_place      = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
+  | resting_place    = [[Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)|Oak Hill Cemetery]]<br />Washington, D.C., U.S.
+  | ethnicity        =
+  | parents          = {{ubl|[[Francis Scott Key]]|Mary Tayloe Lloyd}}
+  | children         = 4
+  | relatives        =
+  | religion         =
+}}
+'''Philip Barton Key II''' (April 5, 1818 – February 27, 1859)<ref name="Richardson">Richardson, Hester Dorsey. ''Side-Lights on Maryland History: With Sketches of Early Maryland Families.'' Baltimore, Md.: Williams and Wilkins company, 1913.</ref> was an American lawyer who served as [[United States Attorney for the District of Columbia|U.S. Attorney]] for the [[Washington, D.C.|District of Columbia]].<ref name="Gallagher" /> He is most famous for his public affair with [[Teresa Bagioli Sickles]], and his eventual murder at the hands of her husband, [[United States House of Representatives|Congressman]] [[Daniel Sickles]] of [[New York (state)|New York]]. Sickles defended himself by adopting a defense of [[Insanity defense#Temporary insanity|temporary insanity]], the first time the defense had been successfully used in the United States.<ref name="Gallagher">[[Gary W. Gallagher|Gallagher, Gary W.]] ''Three Days at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership.'' Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999. {{ISBN|0-87338-629-9}}</ref><ref>Spiegel, Allen D. ''Murder and Madness: Military Matters and Managed Medicine: Memorable Milestones and Moments.'' Charleston, S.C.: Heritage Books, 2007. {{ISBN|0-7884-4079-9}}; Wylie, Paul R. ''The Irish General: Thomas Francis Meagher.'' Stillwater, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. {{ISBN|0-8061-3847-5}}</ref>
-==Biography==
+== Biography ==
+[[File:Coat of Arms of Francis Scott Key.svg|150px|thumb|left|Coat of Arms of Philip Barton Key II]]
-Born in [[Georgetown, Washington, D.C.|Georgetown]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], Key was the son of [[Francis Scott Key]] and the great-nephew of [[Philip Barton Key (U.S. politician)|Philip Barton Key]]. A handsome man, Key was known to be flirtatious with many women.
+Born in [[Georgetown, Washington, D.C.|Georgetown]], [[Washington, D.C.|D.C.]], Key was the son of [[Francis Scott Key]]<ref name="Walther">Walther, Eric H. ''The Shattering of the Union: America in the 1850s.'' New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. {{ISBN|0-8420-2799-8}}</ref><ref name="Flower" /> and the great-nephew of [[Philip Barton Key (U.S. politician)|Philip Barton Key]]. He was also a nephew of Chief Justice [[Roger B. Taney]].<ref name="Walther" /><ref name="Flower">Flower, Frank Abial. ''Edwin McMasters Stanton: The Autocrat of Rebellion, Emancipation, and Reconstruction.'' New York: W.W. Wilson, 1905.</ref> He married Ellen Swan, the daughter of a [[Baltimore]] attorney, on November 18, 1845.<ref name="Richardson" /> Allegedly the most handsome man in Washington<ref>Taylor, John M. ''William Henry Seward: Lincoln's Right Hand.'' New York: Brassey's, 1996. {{ISBN|1-57488-119-1}}</ref> and by 1859 a widower with four children, Key was known to be flirtatious with many women.<ref>Goode, James M. ''Capital Losses: A Cultural History of Washington's Destroyed Buildings.'' Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. {{ISBN|0-87474-479-2}}</ref>{{efn|Before he married Ellen Swan, Key had been engaged to Virginia Timberlake, a daughter of [[Margaret O'Neill Eaton|Peggy Eaton]], the center of the [[Petticoat affair]] that bedeviled the cabinet of President [[Andrew Jackson]]. One of Key's great-granddaughters was the 1960s style icon [[Pauline de Rothschild]].}}
+[[File:Sickles homicide.jpg|thumb|left|''[[Harper's Weekly]]'' engraving of [[Daniel Sickles]] shooting Key]]
-In 1859, Congressman [[Daniel Sickles]] shot and killed Phillip Barton Key, for having conducted a public affair with his wife [[Teresa Bagioli Sickles]].<ref>Tagg, Larry, [http://www.rocemabra.com/~roger/tagg/generals/ ''The Generals of Gettysburg''], Savas Publishing, 1998, ISBN 1-882810-30-9. p. 62</ref> Sickles, who had several extra-marital affairs of his own, received an anonymous note informing him of his wife's liason with Key.  Not waiting Sickles saw Key passing his home on February 27, 1859.  He confronted him outside. Key was unarmed when attacked.  The murder took place on [[President's Park|Lafayette Square]], just north of the White House. Sickles was acquitted, on the basis of [[Insanity defense#Temporary insanity|temporary insanity]], a [[crime of passion]], in one of the most controversial trials of the 19th century. Sickles' attorney later became a powerful rival [[Secretary of War]] [[Edwin Stanton]]. Years later, according to Sickles' biographer Nat Brandt, while attending the theater in New York City, Sickles was aware of the presence of Key's son James Key in the audience, and both men kept watching each other throughout the performance.  But nothing happened. <ref>Brandt, Nat, ''The Congressman Who Got Away With Murder'', University of Syracuse Press, c1991, ISBN 0-8156-0251-0. p. 213</ref>
+Key was appointed to his father's former position, [[United States Attorney for the District of Columbia]], by President [[Franklin Pierce|Pierce]] in September 1853,<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40749536/from_washington/ |title=From Washington |date=September 16, 1853 |work=The Times-Picayune |access-date=December 18, 2019 |pages=2}}</ref> during a recess of the Senate;<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hlaw:14:./temp/~ammem_QMmu:: |title=Senate Executive Journal --THURSDAY, February 2, 1854. |date=February 2, 1854 |website=memory.loc.gov |access-date=December 18, 2019}}</ref> the Senate later confirmed his nomination in March 1854.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hlaw:7:./temp/~ammem_ztgw:: |title=Senate Executive Journal --TUESDAY, March 14, 1854. |date=March 14, 1854 |website=memory.loc.gov |access-date=December 18, 2019}}</ref> Four years later, he was nominated,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hlaw:10:./temp/~ammem_nvEu:: |title=Senate Executive Journal --WEDNESDAY, March 24, 1858. |date=March 24, 1858 |website=memory.loc.gov |access-date=2019-12-18}}</ref> and confirmed again,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hlaw:13:./temp/~ammem_nvEu:: |title=Senate Executive Journal --TUESDAY, March 30, 1858. |date=March 30, 1858 |website=memory.loc.gov |access-date=2019-12-18}}</ref> for another four-year term; thus, he would serve until his death.
+[[File:HarpersMagazineMrs.Sickles.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''[[Harper's Weekly]]'' engraving of Mrs. Sickles from a photograph of [[Mathew Brady]]]]
-At the time of his death Key was the [[United States Attorney for the District of Columbia]]. He is buried in [[Oak Hill Cemetery]] in Washington and is also memorialized in a [[cenotaph]] in his son-in-law's family plot in [[Westminster Hall and Burying Ground]] in [[Baltimore, Maryland]].
+Sometime in the spring of 1858, Teresa Sickles began an affair with Key.<ref name="Gallagher" /> Dan Sickles, though a serial adulterer himself, had accused his much-younger wife of adultery several times during their five-year marriage, and she had repeatedly denied it to his satisfaction.<ref name="Walther" /> But then Sickles received a [[poison pen letter]]<ref>from [http://www.assumption.edu/dept/history/Hi113net/sickles/default1.html assumption.edu] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060914160639/http://www.assumption.edu/dept/history/Hi113net/sickles/default1.html |date=2006-09-14 }} "The stories told how Sickles had received an anonymous letter on Thursday, February 24th, informing him of his wife's relationship with Key."</ref> informing him of his wife's affair with Key.<ref>The anonymous letter was reproduced in Harper's: [http://www.assumption.edu/acad/ii/Academic/history/Hi113net/sickles/anonletter.html Letter image]</ref><ref name="Gallagher" /><ref name="Walther" /> He confronted his wife, who confessed to the affair.<ref name="Gallagher" /> Sickles then made his wife write out her confession on paper.<ref name="Hartog">Hartog, Hendrik. ''Man and Wife in America: A History.'' Reprint ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. {{ISBN|0-674-00811-1}}</ref>
+===Death===
-His great-granddaughter [[Pauline de Rothschild]] was a well-known American fashion designer.
+{{Main|Trial of Daniel Sickles}}
+Sickles saw Key sitting on a bench outside the Sickles home on February 27, 1859, signalling to Teresa, and confronted him.<ref>Tagg, Larry. ''The Generals of Gettysburg.'' Campbell, Calif.: Savas Publishing, 1998. {{ISBN|1-882810-30-9}}. p. 62.</ref><ref name="Gallagher" /><ref name="Walther" /><ref name="Hartog" /> Sickles rushed outside into [[President's Park|Lafayette Square]], cried "Key, you scoundrel, you have dishonored my home; you must die",<ref>Flower, ''Edwin McMasters Stanton: The Autocrat of Rebellion, Emancipation, and Reconstruction,'' 1905, p. 73.</ref> and with a pistol repeatedly shot the unarmed Key.<ref name="Gallagher" /><ref name="Walther" />
+Key was taken into the nearby [[Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House]], where he died some time later.<ref name="Smith">Smith, Hal H. "Historic Washington Homes." ''Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington.'' 1908.</ref>
+Sickles was acquitted based on [[Insanity defense#Temporary insanity|temporary insanity]], a [[crime of passion]], in one of the most controversial trials of the 19th century.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Twain | first = Mark | authorlink = Mark Twain | title = The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume One | publisher = University of California Press | year = 2010 | location = Berkeley, CA | pages = [https://archive.org/details/autobiographyofm00twai_0/page/566 566] | isbn = 978-0-520-26719-0 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/autobiographyofm00twai_0/page/566 }}</ref> It was the first successful use of the defense in the United States.<ref name = "BrandEx">"Crime History", ''The Washington Examiner'', Feb. 27, 2012, p. 8.</ref>  One of Sickles' attorneys, [[Edwin Stanton]], later became the [[Secretary of War]].<!--is this in Brandt?--> Newspapers declared Sickles a hero for "saving" women from Key.<ref name = "BrandEx" /> Years later, while attending the theater in New York City, Sickles became aware of the presence of Key's son, James Key, in the audience; both men watched each other throughout the performance. Nothing else happened.<ref>Brandt, Nat. ''The Congressman Who Got Away With Murder.'' Syracuse, N.Y.: University of Syracuse Press, 1991. {{ISBN|0-8156-0251-0}}. p. 213.</ref>
-==Sources==
+Key is buried in [[Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)|Oak Hill Cemetery]], with a dedicatory in his son-in-law's family plot in [[Westminster Hall and Burying Ground]] in [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=K3ZsDwAAQBAJ&dq=philip+barton+key+westminster&pg=PT10 ''Murder of the U.S. Attorney'']</ref>
+== Notes ==
+{{notelist}}
+== References ==
+{{reflist|20cm}}
+== External links ==
+{{commons category}}
+* One of [https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2009/08/teresa-sickles.html Teresa's Sickles] escorts was Philip Barton Key
+* {{Find a Grave|9458197}}
 * [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kerrey-keydel.html ''The Political Graveyard'']
-{{reflist}}
-* [[Brandt, Nat]] ''The Congressman Who Got Away With Murder'', (Syracuse, NY: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS, c1991), 261p., illus. ISBN. 0-8156-0251-0
+{{Authority control}}
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-* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9458197 Philip Barton Key's Photo & Gravesite]
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