The Petticoat affair (also known as the Eaton affair) was a political scandal involving members of President Andrew Jackson's Cabinet and their wives,...

A petticoat or underskirt is an article of clothing, a type of undergarment worn under a skirt or a dress. Its precise meaning varies over centuries and...

in etiquette, and she was well received by Washington society. The Petticoat affair caused a split between the Donelsons and the president, and Donelson...

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...

focus of controversy during Jackson's first term; in the so-called Petticoat affair, Washington's society wives refused to socialize with the Eatons. The...

office dealing with what came to be known as the "Petticoat affair" or "Eaton affair". The affair focused on Secretary of War Eaton's wife, Margaret...

with Jackson, primarily because of the Nullification Crisis and the Petticoat affair. In contrast with his previous nationalist sentiments, Calhoun vigorously...

years in office responding to what came to be known as the "Petticoat affair" or "Eaton affair." Washington gossip circulated among Jackson's cabinet members...

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...

Their marriage was the cause of a national controversy known as the Petticoat affair. While better known in history as Peggy, Margaret stated in her autobiography...

American woman (wife of a United States Senator) involved in the "Petticoat affair" Margaret Fernie Eaton (1871–1953), English artist This disambiguation...

was the only Cabinet member not to resign in 1831 as a result of the Petticoat affair. Born near Lunenburg, Virginia, he moved to Fayette County, Kentucky...

coalescing Democratic Party. He ultimately resigned to help resolve the Petticoat affair and briefly served as ambassador to Great Britain. At Jackson's behest...

"Rachel and Andrew Jackson's Love Story" Marszalek, John F. (1997). The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House. Free Press...

Friedrich 1937, p. 10. United States Civil Service Commission Office of Public Affairs 1974, p. 16. Friedrich 1937, p. 12. Friedrich 1937, p. 10-12. Bailey 1981...

Press. ISBN 978-0-8142-0927-1. Marszalek, John F. (2000) [1997]. The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House. Baton Rouge...

innkeeper's daughter, Peggy O'Neal. Peggy O'Neill had a central role in the Petticoat affair that disrupted the cabinet of Andrew Jackson. In 1823 Washington D...

President John C. Calhoun had fallen out with Jackson following the Petticoat affair and the Nullification Crisis, and subsequently resigned the office...

nullification crisis. Both that and the political fallout from the Petticoat affair ended friendly relations between Calhoun and Jackson. As a result,...

collection of Berrien papers (including important material relating to the Petticoat affair). The Society also annually presents the John Macpherson Berrien Award...

(DD-510), a Fletcher-class destroyer of the U.S. Navy Eaton affair, also known as the Petticoat affair, an 1831 U.S. scandal involving members of President Andrew...

had an affair with Margaret O'Neill Timberlake (the wife of John B. Timberlake), which reportedly drove Timberlake to suicide (see Petticoat affair). Eaton...

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Virginia Timberlake, a daughter of Peggy Eaton, the center of the Petticoat affair that bedeviled the cabinet of President Andrew Jackson. One of Key's...

the Discipline. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 1997. The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House. New York:...

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the most part, the debate from 1828 to 1832 was a local South Carolina affair. The state's leaders were not united and the sides were roughly equal. The...

"parlor cabinet") following his purge of the cabinet at the end of the Eaton affair and his break with Vice President John C. Calhoun in 1831. The Oxford English...

great deal on the Bank War, the federal tariff on imports, and the Petticoat affair, during which Meacham claimed "the future of the American presidency...

by taking part in the social ostracism of Peggy Eaton, during the Petticoat affair, although she continued to greet Eaton, unlike Vice President John...