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Francis Scott Key
American lawyer and poet who wrote The Star-Spangled Banner
dead
no longer with us. rest easy.
- born
- 1779
- died
- 1843
- age at death
- 64
- known for
- poet, lawyer, writer
1779 – 1843
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