Francis Scott Key wife. Sickles was acquitted in the first use of the temporary insanity defense. In1861 Key's grandson Francis Key Howard was imprisoned in Fort McHenry with the Mayor of Baltimore George William Brown and other locals deemed pro-South. Key was a distant cousin and the namesake of F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose full name was Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. His direct descendants include geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan, guitarist Dana Key, and American fashion designer and socialite Pauline de Rothschild. Francis Scott Key Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet from Frederick, Maryland who
John F. Ross (author) Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier," as a "lively, evocative and at times moving biography" of the man who is the godfather of Special Operations. John F. Ross (author) John F. Ross is an American historian and author. He is the recipient of the 2011 Fort Ticonderoga Award for Contributions to American History. The author of over 200 articles, Ross' works have appeared in "Smithsonian Magazine," the "New York Times," "Wall Street Journal," "Reader's Digest," and the "Washington Post." He has reported from Greenland, Siberia, Galapagos, Panama, Thailand, and Mexico. In addition to his written work, Ross