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1801
Key begins his law career in Frederick. His college friend, Robert Brooke Taney, also practices law in Frederick, and later marries Key's sister Anne.
1802
Key marries Mary Tayloe Lloyd in Annapolis.
1803
Key moves to Washington, D.C., to become a partner in the law practice of his uncle, Phillip Barton Key.
1814
Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner" which would become the national anthem of the United States in 1931. |