A cigar box exploiting Eaton's fame and beauty, showing President Jackson introduced to Peggy O'Neal (left) and two lovers fighting a duel over her (right)Peggy O'Neill Eaton, in later life
The Petticoat affair (also known as the Eaton affair) was a political scandal involving members of President Andrew Jackson's Cabinet and their wives, from 1829 to 1831. Led by Floride Calhoun, wife of Vice President John C. Calhoun, these women, dubbed the "Petticoats", socially ostracized Secretary of War John Eaton and his wife, Peggy Eaton, over disapproval of the circumstances surrounding the Eatons' marriage and what they deemed her failure to meet the "moral standards of a Cabinet Wife".
The Petticoat affair rattled the entire Jackson administration and eventually led to the resignation of all but one Cabinet member. The ordeal facilitated Martin Van Buren's rise to the presidency and was in part responsible for Calhoun's transformation from a nationwide political figure with presidential aspirations into a sectional leader of the Southern United States.
The Petticoataffair (also known as the Eaton affair) was a political scandal involving members of President Andrew Jackson's Cabinet and their wives,...
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in etiquette, and she was well received by Washington society. The Petticoataffair caused a split between the Donelsons and the president, and Donelson...
politician John C. Calhoun. She was known for her leading role in the Petticoataffair, which occurred during her husband's service as vice president of the...
years in office responding to what came to be known as the "Petticoataffair" or "Eaton affair." Washington gossip circulated among Jackson's cabinet members...
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coalescing Democratic Party. He ultimately resigned to help resolve the Petticoataffair and briefly served as ambassador to Great Britain. At Jackson's behest...
"Rachel and Andrew Jackson's Love Story" Marszalek, John F. (1997). The PetticoatAffair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House. Free Press...
President John C. Calhoun had fallen out with Jackson following the Petticoataffair and the Nullification Crisis, and subsequently resigned the office...
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American woman (wife of a United States Senator) involved in the "Petticoataffair" Margaret Fernie Eaton (1871–1953), English artist This disambiguation...
Quincy Adams, for misappropriating public funds. He also handled the Petticoataffair concerning Secretary of War John Eaton, and he served as the attorney...
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innkeeper's daughter, Peggy O'Neal. Peggy O'Neill had a central role in the Petticoataffair that disrupted the cabinet of Andrew Jackson. In 1823 Washington D...
Virginia Timberlake, a daughter of Peggy Eaton, the center of the Petticoataffair that bedeviled the cabinet of President Andrew Jackson. One of Key's...
by taking part in the social ostracism of Peggy Eaton, during the Petticoataffair, although she continued to greet Eaton, unlike Vice President John...
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Press. ISBN 978-0-8142-0927-1. Marszalek, John F. (2000) [1997]. The PetticoatAffair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House. Baton Rouge...
was involved in a notorious Washington cabinet scandal known as the PetticoatAffair and informed Eaton of the "military implications" in terms of the British...
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...
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