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Margaret Eaton (née O'Neill, formerly Timberlake, later Buchignani; December 3, 1799 – November 8, 1879), was the wife of John Henry Eaton, a United States senator from Tennessee and United States Secretary of War, and a confidant of Andrew Jackson. Their marriage was the cause of a national controversy known as the Petticoat affair. While ...
The Timberlakes became acquainted with John Eaton in 1818. [6] At the time, Eaton was a wealthy 28-year-old widower and newly elected U.S. Senator from Tennessee, despite not yet having reached the constitutionally-mandated minimum age of 30. [7] He was also a long-time friend of Andrew Jackson. [8]
John Eaton was born on June 18, 1790, near Scotland Neck, Halifax County, North Carolina [2] to John and Elizabeth Eaton. [3] The elder John Eaton was a furniture maker who served as county coroner and member of the North Carolina House of Representatives. [4] Eaton's uncle, Major Pinketham Eaton (sometimes spelled Pinkerton), was a Continental ...
John Bowie Timberlake (c. 1777 – April 2, 1828) was a protagonist in the American political scandal known as the Petticoat affair. His wife Margaret was rumored to have had an affair with John Eaton, who became Secretary of War in President Andrew Jackson's cabinet. The scandal brought about the resignation of most members of Jackson's cabinet.
Floride Bonneau Calhoun (née Colhoun; February 15, 1792 – July 25, 1866) was the wife of U.S. politician John C. Calhoun.She was known for her leading role in the Petticoat affair, which occurred during her husband's service as vice president of the United States.
John Lithgow and wife Mary Yeager have learned to turn the actor’s work trips into vacations.. Now that Yeager is retired from her job at UCLA, where she was a professor of business and economic ...
John Cena shared rare insight into his marriage to his wife, Shay Shariatzadeh. When asked what his most prized possession was during an interview with WSJ. Magazine, Cena, 47, replied, “The ...
In one notable exception, Floride Calhoun, wife of Vice President John C. Calhoun, was a central figure in the Petticoat Affair, a social-political scandal which involved the social ostracism of Secretary of War John H. Eaton and his wife Margaret O'Neill Eaton, further damaging already-strained relations between Vice President Calhoun and ...