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	Margaret Eaton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Margaret Eaton (Helen-Keller) (1799 - 1879) was the U.S. wife of John Henry Eaton, they married in 1829.
		She had an affair with John Henry Eaton while her husband was away at sea, but her husband died at sea.
		In what later came to be known as the Peggy Eaton affair, Andrew Jackson demanded conciliation and friendship between Peggy Eaton and the wives of other congressmen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peggy_Eaton (200 words)

	Peggy Eaton Affair, Andrew Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Eaton, whose status in society soon became a political issue.
		Van Buren, who saw the Eaton affair as a liability to the administration, submitted his resignation, aware that this would precipitate a reorganization of the cabinet.
		The resignations of Eaton (7 Apr.) and Van Buren (11 Apr.) were accepted by Jackson, who then requested and received those of the Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of the Navy Branch, and Attorney General.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~mwfriedm/terms/le8.html (545 words)

	The White House Historical Association > Classroom
		Jackson and Eaton had known each other since the days when they both served as senators from Tennessee and had roomed at the same boarding house in Washington, D.C. Eaton was in love with Margaret O'Neal Timberlake, the daughter of the boardinghouse owner, who lived there at the time.
		One day, when John Eaton was absent, Jackson called a cabinet meeting for the express purpose of defending Margaret's honor, presenting evidence of her morality.
		Eaton's character proved to be distorted or accurate.
	www.whitehousehistory.org /04/subs/04_b_1828b.html (1094 words)

	PlanetPapers - Margaret (Peggy) Timberlake Eaton
		Eaton married Margaret shortly after Timberlake’s death, which caused a bit of a commotion.
		Jackson was determined to have the Eatons accepted in polite Washington DC society.
		Jackson soon began to believe that it was not only the members of his cabinet that were carrying on this affair, but also his political enemies in an effort to bring him down.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/2938.php (1174 words)

	H-Net Review: Daniel Feller on The Petticoat Affair: Manners Mutiny and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White ...
		Eaton as a covert attack on him, he made her cause a test of personal and political fealty.
		Eaton, and was rewarded with the ministry to England, the vice-presidency, and finally the presidential succession.
		The Eaton affair thus strikes to the heart of an enduring historians' controversy over Jackson's character: whether he was master or servant of his moods, and the extent to which petty personal motives governed his political choices.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3068909516224 (1607 words)

	OA Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Eaton said surveilling people with questionable workers compensation claims is her bread and butter.
		Eaton said she doesn’t look like a private investigator and that gives her an advantage.
		Eaton said she has a $500 retainer for a typical domestic case.
	www.oaoa.com /news/nw0211101c.htm (1226 words)

	A brief biography of Andrew Jackson 1767 - 1845: 14
		Eaton had a problem; he had recently married a young widow in "unseemly haste" after the suicide of her husband, John Timberlake.
		She was said to have been Eaton's mistress, and in some versions to have carried on affairs with many men, or to have borne children by Eaton.
		Eaton, the troublesome Calhoun allies in the cabinet, and the perceived "magician" left the cabinet together.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/P/aj7/about/bio/jack14.htm (1717 words)

	American President
		Eaton decided to study law and ultimately became a lawyer in Tennessee after service in the War of 1812 as a private.
		A close associate of Jackson's, Eaton was ostracized by many in the President's cabinet due to his marriage to a woman of low social position.
		Eaton resigned his post in 1831; soon thereafter, President Jackson demanded the resignations of almost his entire cabinet.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/andrewjackson/cabinet/SecretaryofWar/JohnHEaton/h_index.shtml (284 words)

	Converted file jts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Eaton had moved some of her possessions into Griffith’s house, and Land learned of the affair.
		Eaton and Land continued to argue outside, and Eaton went to Griffith’s house.
		Land argues that he was subjected to multiple punishments for the same offense by the judgments of conviction and the sentences for arson as a class B felony and arson as a class D felony.
	www.ai.org /judiciary/opinions/archive/01210401.jts.html (3466 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The end result was that those who socialized with the Eatons and proved their loyalty to Jackson in other areas as well won his favor.
		With the Eaton Affair behind him and his programs in full swing, Jackson turned his attention to the issue that would define his presidency and forever reshape the office he held.
		He approached foreign affairs with a simple principle, “to ask nothing that is not clearly right, and to submit to nothing that is wrong.” With his foreign policy principles in hand and Jackson’s military reputation preceding it, American ministers were able to win new found respect for American rights and trade all over the globe.
	www.thehermitage.com /jackson/biography/president/content.htm (2247 words)

	Andrew Jacksons Petticoat Affair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		She was the daughter of William O'Neale, an Irish immigrant and owner of a commodious Washington, D.C., boardinghouse and tavern, the Franklin House on I Street.
		Jackson had taken a liking to hotelier O'Neale and his "agreeable and worthy family." He was especially fond of Margaret, the 23-year-old wife of navy purser John Bowie Timberlake, with whom she bore three children (one of them dying in infancy).
		Moreover, when Timberlake was away, Eaton was glad to escort his wife on drives and to parties, enjoying both her humor and intelligence.
	www.thehistorynet.com /ah/blandrewjackson (1026 words)

	ANDREW JACKSON AND THE EATON AFFAIR: A NATIONAL SOAP OPERA
		One, the Eaton Affair, led to the fall of an entire government, with the exception of the president himself.
		She was married to a navy purser named Timberlake, but the marriage was not a happy one.
		It was Eaton who first convinced Jackson to run for president, and it was Eaton who managed his campaign.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/presidents_and_first_ladies/26544 (607 words)

	Mark Freeman commentary
		For decades, Randall Eaton has sympathized with every hunter whose clumsy lips can't ever say what their hearts feel about the animals they pursue.
		Eaton knows the hunter's frustration when nay-sayers declare this spiritual approach to hunting as nothing more than philosophical gobbledygook used just to camouflage the mere killing for fun.
		Eaton also presents many of the usual pro-hunting arguments, such as: killing a wild animal for meat is more moral than relying on industrial farming for food; that a quick death by bullet or arrow is better than starvation from having too many animals in limited
	www.mailtribune.com /outdoor/archive/101697o2.htm (862 words)

	Dagsboro senator learns tough political lesson - Delaware Coast Press - delmarvanow.com
		Eaton was a senator from Tennessee and a confidant of president-elect Jackson, who planned to name Eaton Secretary of War.
		After Jackson was inaugurated, he appointed Eaton secretary of war; and the president insisted that Peggy Eaton be treated as a cabinet member's wife.
		The Peggy Eaton affair threatened to rip Jackson's administration apart until Secretary of State Martin Van Buren saw a way to end the controversy.
	www.delmarvanow.com /deweybeach/stories/20041201/1677544.html (804 words)

	Peggy O'Neal Eaton
		Eaton, Peggy 1796 - 1879: She was the daughter of William O'Neale, an Irish immigrant and owner of a commodious Washington, D.C., boardinghouse and tavern, the Franklin House on I Street.
		Eaton [Peggy O'Neale] was the mother-in-law of John Brockenbrough Randolph and had custody of his orphaned minor children.
		Jackson was infuriated by Eaton's political disloyalty, claiming that "He comes out against all the political principles he ever professed and against those on which he was supported and elected senator." The two men didn't reconcile until a year before Jackson's death in 1845.
	www.onealwebsite.com /onealpeggy.htm (7385 words)

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		Eaton to that directed against his wife during the election.
		Eaton in social affairs, he encouraged her to increase her campaign against Mrs.
		Peggy Timberlake Eaton was the catalyst of a series of events that led to the resignations of the entire executive branch of the government (except President Jackson)---the entire cabinet and the vice president.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/4996/26544 (1082 words)

	American President
		More interested in religion than in public affairs, Rachel had begged her husband to withdraw from politics lest a family scandal be revealed.
		Peggy Eaton was the daughter of a tavern keeper and the wife of Jackson's secretary of war.
		Jackson's reaction to the "Peggy Eaton Affair" is not surprising, given the torment his own wife had endured during his two presidential elections.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/andrewjackson/firstlady (640 words)

	Andrew Jackson and the Bankwar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		John C. Calhoun, was opposed to the Eatons as well and many of the Cabinet members' wives who had snubbed Mrs.
		The Eaton affair had similarities to the scorn Jackson and his wife, Rachel, had endured years before.
		Eaton but after all of the Cabinet members were sworn in, she was immediately ostracized
	odur.let.rug.nl /usa/e/bankwar/bankwar7.htm (358 words)

	Hardy Cross and the "Moment Distribution Method" by Leonard K. Eaton in Nexus Network Journal v3n3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Leonard K. Eaton resurrects the reputation of Hardy Cross, developer of the "moment distribution method" and one of America's most brilliant engineers.
		The structural calculation of a large reinforced concrete building in the nineteen fifties was a complicated affair.
		Eaton is contemplating a longer work on Hardy Cross and would be glad to hear from any one with information on this remarkable man.
	www.nexusjournal.com /Eaton.html (3771 words)

	Booknotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		THE PETTICOAT AFFAIR, by award-winning historian John F. Marszalek, is the definitive account of the greatest political sex scandal in American history.
		It tells the fascinating story of Margaret O'Neale Eaton, the brash and unconventional wife of Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War, who was branded a "loose woman" and snubbed by Washington society.
		By the time the scandal that ensued was over, the entire cabinet resigned, duels were threatened, assassinations were attempted, John Calhoun's hopes for the White House were dashed, and Jackson's first term as nearly a failure.
	www.booknotes.org /Program?ProgramID=1403 (311 words)

	Peggy eaton, - Primary Sources (Andrew Jackson on the Web)
		THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PEGGY EATON / MARGARET O'NEALE EATON ; WITH A PREF.
		Allgor is interested in the commonality among these four women (or in Peggy Eaton's case what she failed to have in common with the others).
		The scandal over Peggy Eaton, the wife of Secretary of War, John Eaton, had divided the Cabinet members and their spouses.
	www.thensearch.com /?q=peggy+eaton (649 words)

	National Review: The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House. - book reviews
		He won the election, but a month later Rachel had a fatal heart attack, leaving this most uxorious of men to be inaugurated as a widower seething with unspent rage at scandalmongers.
		Next, an unctuous Presbyterian minister, the Rev. Ezra Stiles Ely, wrote Jackson that Peggy's two daughters had been fathered by Eaton, not Timberlake, and that she had had a miscarriage while Timberlake was at sea.
		Worried by the way affairs of state were being ignored, Alexander Hamilton's son told Martin Van Buren, "We did not make him President to work the miracle of making Mrs.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n3_v50/ai_20314597 (1222 words)

	Educate Yourself - Andrew Jackson: Part One - Peggy Eaton
		I was originally drawn to the presidency of Andrew Jackson because of the story during his administration of land speculation and the crisis over the Bank of the United States.
		Due to her most unsavory reputation at the tavern, Peggy was thought to be sleeping with the boarders, principally Eaton.
		When Senator Eaton died in 1856, however, Peggy, now 56, remarried a wealthy Italian dance- master, who promptly took her for all her considerable assets (as left by the senator) and then ran off with Peggy's granddaughter.
	www.buyandhold.com /bh/en/education/history/2002/a_jackson_pt_1.html (1599 words)

	Andrew Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Eaton's suspected affair with the already married Peggy led to the suicide of her husband John Timberlake; this tragedy occurred shortly before her marriage to Eaton.
		The President-elect approves of their marriage, stating to Secretary Eaton, "If you love the woman, and she will have you, marry her.
		Reverend Campbell urges the President to protect his administration against criticism and to safeguard the "morals of the country from contamination." In the spirit of defending "a helpless and virtuous female [Peggy Eaton]," the President brusquely replies to the reverend, insisting that he "give evidence" and not an oration.
	www.historywise.com /KoTrain/Courses/AJA/AJA_Presidential_Moments.htm (702 words)

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		While Timberlake was away, John Eaton was frequently Peggy’s companion, serving as escort for Peggy and her daughter, and talking with Peggy on the porch of the Franklin House until late into the evening.
		John Eaton was so enraged at the abuse of his wife that he began to demand satisfaction from anyone who tried to slander his wife, but his demands were either ignored or refused.
		Peggy Eaton was an individual; a woman of passion and beauty; a woman who simply spoke her own mind and showed what she felt, not out of a desire to change or influence politics, but because she was open and honest.
	www.foundersofamerica.org /making.html (3320 words)

	Insight on the News: The Petticoat Affair. - book reviews
		As the "impudent and insolent" correspondence escalated, Eaton challenged Ingham to a duel.
		The affair, which pervaded and nearly paralyzed the federal government for more than two years, is the subject of The Petticoat Affair (Free Press, 304 pp), an enlightening as well as delightful new book by John F. Marszalek.
		At first he attributed the Eaton affair to his archenemy Henry Clay, and when that proved to be demonstrably groundless, he fixed upon Vice President John C. Calhoun.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n4_v14/ai_20212851 (1151 words)

	Petticoat Affair (Andrew Jackson on the Web) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House by John F. Marszalek.
		The Margaret O'Neil Eaton Affair from the White House Historical Association.
		Summary of the Peggy Eaton Affair by Henry J. Sage.
	www.isidore-of-seville.com /jackson/10.html (276 words)

	interFIRE, A site dedicated to improving fire investigation worldwide.
		In Donald Land vs. State Of Indiana, No. 82a04-0304-Cr-176, Court Of Appeals Of Indiana, Fourth District (January 21, 2004), Donald Land appealed his convictions for arson as a class B felony n1 and arson as a class D felony.
		On November 18, 2001, Land told Griffith that he "was a piece of garbage and [he] was lucky that [Land] didn't beat [his] head in with a baseball bat." Land also told his neighbors, Don and Janeta McNeele, that Griffith was "messing with [his] wife" and that Land would "just do something to his house.
		When Land arrived where Eaton and Griffith were visiting their friend, he kept telling Griffith "that he didn't do it."
	www.interfire.org /features/legalview.asp?date=02162004 (1723 words)

	Calhoun, John Caldwell. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A Congressman (1811–17) and acting chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Calhoun was one of the leading “war hawks,” who whipped up enthusiasm for the War of 1812.
		He remained a nationalist for some time after the war, speaking for a strong army and navy, for encouragement of manufacturing, for internal improvements, and for a national bank; many of these causes he later opposed.
		Calhoun, prodded by his wife and his supporters, offended the President in the Eaton affair (see O’Neill, Margaret).
	www.bartleby.com /65/ca/Calhoun.html (818 words)

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