Philip Barton Key II
American lawyer
Died when: 40 years 328 days (490 months)Star Sign: Aries
Philip Barton Key II (April 5, 1818 – February 27, 1859) was an American lawyer who served as U.S.Attorney for the District of Columbia.
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 used in the United States.
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