Francis Scott Key
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Francis Scott Key was an author and poet who lived from 1779 to 1843. His literary output includes 42 works, with notable titles such as *National melodies* and *A part of a speech pronounced by Francis S. Key, on the trial of Reuben Crandall*. Other published pieces include *Petition of sundry inhabitants of Washington in the District of Columbia* and *Drei uebersetzungen aus dem englischen*.
Key’s writings have been cataloged across various databases, with specific counts indicating one work in Europeana and five in Crossref. His musical legacy is reflected in digital archives, where his name is associated with tags such as "pindos hip-hop" and "All." The subject is referenced by 445 other encyclopedia articles and has a presence on music platforms with 2,264 listeners and 6,185 plays.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Europeana Sparql, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1779
- Died
- 1843
- Works
- 42
Top works
- National melodies
- A part of a speech pronounced by Francis S. Key, on the trial of Reuben Crandall
- Petition of sundry inhabitants of Washington in the District of Columbia
- Drei uebersetzungen aus dem englischen
- Drei uebersetzungen aus dem enlischen
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,264
- Total plays
- 6,185
Tags
Francis Scott Key is an alumni from St. John's College (Annapolis, MD) who is most widely known for writing the lyrics to The Star Spangled Banner. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Francis+Scott+Key">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.
· 2003 · cited 67,533x
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 48,747x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,382x
- Going deeper with convolutions
· 2015 · cited 32,854x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,935x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “When the warrior returns, from the battle afar, To the home and the country he nobly defended, O! warm be the welcome to gladden his ear, And loud be the joy that his perils are ended: In the full tide of song let his fame roll along, To the feast-flowing board let us gratefully throng, Where, mixed with the olive, the laurel shall wave, And form a bright wreath for the brows of the brave.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- President
- Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buren
- Preceded by
- Thomas Swann
- Succeeded by
- Philip Richard Fendall II
- Born
- ( 1779-08-01 ) August 1, 1779, Frederick County, Maryland (now Carroll County ), U.S.
- Died
- January 11, 1843 (1843-01-11) (aged 63), Baltimore , Maryland, U.S.
- Resting place
- Mt. Olivet Cemetery
- Spouse
- Mary Tayloe Lloyd ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. January 1, 1802</span>"}]]}'>1802 )
- Children
- 11, including Philip
- Relatives
- Philip Barton Key (uncle), John Tayloe II (grandfather), John Tayloe III (uncle) , Francis Key Howard (grandson), F. Scott Fitzgerald (distant cousin), Roger B. Taney (brother-in-law)
- Occupation
- Poet lawyer
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Scott
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of death
- Baltimore
- Occupation
- lyricist
- Educated at
- St. John's College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Episcopal Church
- Field of work
- district attorney
- Image
- Francis Scott Key by Joseph Wood c1825.jpg
- Political ideology
- white supremacy
Show 9 more facts
- name in native language
- Francis Scott Key
- Commons category
- Francis Scott Key
- date of birth
- 1779-08-01
- date of death
- 1843-01-11
- ethnic group
- English Americans
- Commons gallery
- Francis Scott Key
- relative
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- writing language
- English language
- member of
- American Colonization Society
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Francis Scott Key, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
![Two american patriotic songs : Star spangled banner / [Musik: John Stafford Smith. Text: Francis Scott Key]](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.slub-dresden.de%2Ffon%2Fsnp%2Fa%2F007655%2Ffon_snp_a_007655_01.jpg&type=IMAGE)
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Encyclopedic overview
Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and poet from Frederick, Maryland, best known as the author of the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry", which was set to a popular British tune and eventually became the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner". In 1814 Key observed the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore during the War of 1812. He was inspired upon seeing an American flag flying over the fort at dawn: his poem was published within a week with the suggested tune of the popular song "To Anacreon in Heaven". The song with Key's lyrics became known as "The Star-Spangled Banner" and slowly gained in popularity as an unofficial anthem, finally achieving official status as the national anthem more than a century later in 1931.
Key was a lawyer in Maryland and Washington, D.C., for four decades and worked on important cases, including the Burr conspiracy trial, and he argued numerous times before the Supreme Court. He was nominated for District Attorney for the District of Columbia by President Andrew Jackson, where he served from 1833 to 1841.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Francis Scott Key” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.