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Margaret Eaton (née O'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.
Margaret Eaton was a woman whose marriage in 1829 to a prominent Democratic politician caused the famous “cabinet crisis” of U.S. President Andrew Jackson (in which Jackson dismissed his entire cabinet) and led eventually to the succession of Martin Van Buren as head of the party.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Not only was Margaret O'Neale Eaton born in Washington, she spent most of her life there, and indeed her personal history is intimately tied to the city's growth. Both she and Washington were infants in 1799, the year Eaton claims, and most historians accept, as her birth year.
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 ...
Margaret O'Neill (Peggy O'Neill), c.1796–1879, wife of John Henry Eaton, U.S. secretary of war under President Andrew Jackson. She was the daughter of a Washington tavern keeper and married John Timberlake, a purser in the U.S. navy.
Margaret O'Neill Eaton, better known as "Peggy O'Neill", was the daughter of the keeper of a popular Washington tavern, and was noted for her beauty, wit and vivacity. About 1823, she married a purser in the United States Navy, John B. Timberlake, who committed suicide while on service in the Mediterranean in 1828.
- November 8, 1879
Margaret O'Neill (o O'Neale) Eaton (3 de diciembre de 1799 - 8 de noviembre de 1879), También conocida con el nombre de Peggy Eaton, jugó un papel central en el asunto Petticoat a través de su matrimonio con el senador John Henry Eaton, que provocó la disolución de la firma de Andrew Jackson.
