"Peggy O'Neill" redirects here. For the actress, see Peggy O'Neil.
For other people with the same name, see Margaret Eaton.
Peggy Eaton
Born
(1799-12-03)December 3, 1799
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Died
November 8, 1879(1879-11-08) (aged 79)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting place
Oak Hill Cemetery Washington, D.C., U.S.
Spouses
John B. Timberlake
(m. 1816; died 1828)
John Henry Eaton
(m. 1829; died 1856)
Antonio Gabriele Buchignani
(m. 1859; div. 1869)
Children
3
Cigar box shows President Jackson introduced to Peggy (left) and two lovers fighting a duel over her (right).
Margaret Eaton (néeO'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 better known in history as Peggy, Margaret stated in her autobiography, "I never was called Peggy in all my life...I was ordinarily called by my proper name of Margaret."[1]
^Eaton, Margaret (1932). The Autobiography of Peggy Eaton. New York: Scribner's Sons. pp. 6–7, 32.
8, 1879, and was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery. Eaton, Margaret (1932). The Autobiography of PeggyEaton. New York: Scribner's Sons. pp. 6–7, 32. Coit 1975...
ostracized Secretary of War John Eaton and his wife, PeggyEaton, over disapproval of the circumstances surrounding the Eatons' marriage and what they deemed...
the wives of other Cabinet members in ostracizing PeggyEaton, the wife of Secretary of War John Eaton, whom they considered a woman of low morals. The...
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...
inaugural ball. Her epitaph, written by John Eaton, who would later become involved in the PeggyEaton scandal during the Jackson Administration, reads:...
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taking part in the social ostracism of PeggyEaton, during the Petticoat affair, although she continued to greet Eaton, unlike Vice President John C. Calhoun's...
Ellen Swan, Key had been engaged to Virginia Timberlake, a daughter of PeggyEaton, the center of the Petticoat affair that bedeviled the cabinet of President...
affected by the Petticoat affair in his first term. Washington socialite PeggyEaton was the subject of scandal when it was rumored that she had previously...
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Floride Calhoun, concerning Secretary of War Eaton and his wife PeggyEaton. Salacious rumors held that Peggy, as a barmaid in her father's tavern, had been...
documented Ely's advising role with a political sex scandal (the notorious PeggyEaton Affair/Petticoat Affair). In 1844, he entered on pastoral duties in the...
of the most prominent examples were the Nullification Crisis and the PeggyEaton Affair. These struggles led to Vice President Calhoun's estrangement...
protest (as did John Branch) as a result of the Petticoat affair (or PeggyEaton affair), which rocked Washington society and the Jackson administration...
Campbell and others were accused by PeggyEaton of repeating the rumour that before her marriage, she dined with John Eaton in Philadelphia without a chaperone...
illustrator, painter John Eaton (1790–1856), Senator from Tennessee, Secretary of War Margaret "Peggy" Eaton (1899–1879), wife of John Eaton, confidant of Andrew...
played Jackson in The Gorgeous Hussy (1936), a fictionalized biography of PeggyEaton starring Joan Crawford. The Buccaneer (1938), depicting the Battle of...
and writer (died 1888) December 3 – PeggyEaton, born Margaret O'Neill, wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Eaton and central character of the Petticoat...
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