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    8, 1879, and was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery. Eaton, Margaret (1932). The Autobiography of Peggy Eaton. New York: Scribner's Sons. pp. 6–7, 32. Coit 1975...
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    ostracized Secretary of War John Eaton and his wife, Peggy Eaton, over disapproval of the circumstances surrounding the Eatons' marriage and what they deemed...
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    the presidency in 1828, Eaton resigned his Senate seat to join Jackson's cabinet as Secretary of War. Eaton and his wife Peggy became the focus of controversy...
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    the wives of other Cabinet members in ostracizing Peggy Eaton, the wife of Secretary of War John Eaton, whom they considered a woman of low morals. The...
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  • illustrator Peggy Adler (born 1942), American writer Peggy Anderson (1938–2016), American author and journalist Peggy Carr, Vincentian poet Peggy Pond Church...
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    inaugural ball. Her epitaph, written by John Eaton, who would later become involved in the Peggy Eaton scandal during the Jackson Administration, reads:...
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  • was asked by John Eaton to accompany her. Jackson then demands the resignation of his entire cabinet, except for Eaton. Finally, Peggy, who knows that even...
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    "petticoats") against Peggy Eaton, wife of Secretary of War John Eaton, and refused to associate with her. They alleged that John and Peggy Eaton had engaged in...
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  • as Countess d'Urfe Sarah Lawson as Marie Eaton Paul Eddington as Richard Eaton Rosalyn Landor as Peggy Eaton Russell Waters as Malin Eddie Powell as The...
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  • (1974). That Eaton Woman: In Defense of Peggy O'Neale Eaton. Barre, MA: Barre Publishers. p. 144. ISBN 9780517517765. "The Story of Peggy Eaton", Founders...
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    Edwards, Max Bygraves, Bob Monkhouse, and Arthur Askey. Eaton's female co-stars included Peggy Mount, Thora Hird, and Dora Bryan among others. Her early...
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    taking part in the social ostracism of Peggy Eaton, during the Petticoat affair, although she continued to greet Eaton, unlike Vice President John C. Calhoun's...
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    Ellen Swan, Key had been engaged to Virginia Timberlake, a daughter of Peggy Eaton, the center of the Petticoat affair that bedeviled the cabinet of President...
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    affected by the Petticoat affair in his first term. Washington socialite Peggy Eaton was the subject of scandal when it was rumored that she had previously...
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    Petticoat Affair. The Petticoat Affair arose because Peggy Eaton, wife of Secretary of War John H. Eaton, was ostracized by the other cabinet wives due to...
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  • protest (as did John Branch) as a result of the Petticoat affair (or Peggy Eaton affair), which rocked Washington society and the Jackson administration...
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    (formerly interred) Ben Bradlee William P. Burch Adolf Cluss Lorenzo Dow Peggy Eaton Katherine Graham Joseph Henry Herman Hollerith Willie Lincoln (formerly...
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    Floride Calhoun, concerning Secretary of War Eaton and his wife Peggy Eaton. Salacious rumors held that Peggy, as a barmaid in her father's tavern, had been...
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    of the most prominent examples were the Nullification Crisis and the Peggy Eaton Affair. These struggles led to Vice President Calhoun's estrangement...
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    Alcott (d. 1888) December 3 – Peggy Eaton, born Margaret O'Neill, wife of United States Secretary of State John Eaton and central character in the Petticoat...
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    documented Ely's advising role with a political sex scandal (the notorious Peggy Eaton Affair/Petticoat Affair). In 1844, he entered on pastoral duties in the...
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    played Jackson in The Gorgeous Hussy (1936), a fictionalized biography of Peggy Eaton starring Joan Crawford. The Buccaneer (1938), depicting the Battle of...
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    Beach, Delaware. "The Tragedy of King Saul" on King Saul "The Eaton Woman" on Peggy Eaton and the Petticoat Affair during the Andrew Jackson Administration...
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    on Jackson, instead blaming the rift on figures such as Van Buren and Peggy Eaton. In the wake of Jackson's increasing direct conflict with Calhoun, the...
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    from his involvement in the social ostracism of Peggy Eaton, the wife of Secretary of War John H. Eaton, by a group of Cabinet members and their wives...
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  • illustrator, painter John Eaton (1790–1856), Senator from Tennessee, Secretary of War Margaret "Peggy" Eaton (1899–1879), wife of John Eaton, confidant of Andrew...
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  • Campbell and others were accused by Peggy Eaton of repeating the rumour that before her marriage, she dined with John Eaton in Philadelphia without a chaperone...
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    Keats authored six books, including biographies of Amedeo Modigliani and Peggy Eaton. A lifelong artist who lived briefly in Greenwich Village after college...
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  • referred to H.D. as "Dryas" in their letters. Peggy Eaton – Wife of Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War John Eaton. A scandal surrounding her past led to Martin...
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  • and writer (died 1888) December 3 – Peggy Eaton, born Margaret O'Neill, wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Eaton and central character of the Petticoat...
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