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EATON, MARGARET

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 838 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EATON, See also:MARGARET O'See also:NEILL (1796-1879), better known as PEGGY O'NEILL, was the daughter of the keeper of a popular See also:Washington See also:tavern, and was noted for her beauty, wit and vivacity. About 1823, she married a See also:purser in the See also:United States See also:navy, See also:John B. Timberlake, who committed See also:suicide while on service in the Mediterranean in 1828. In the following See also:year she married John See also:Henry Eaton (1790-1856), a See also:Tennessee politician, at the See also:time a member of the United States See also:Senate. Senator Eaton was a See also:close See also:personal friend of See also:President See also:Jackson, who in 1829 appointed him secretary of See also:war. This sudden See also:elevation of Mrs Eaton into the See also:cabinet social circle was resented by the wives of several of Jackson's secretaries, and charges were made against her of improper conduct with Eaton previous to her See also:marriage to him. The refusal of the wives of the cabinet members to recognize the wife of his friend angered President Jackson, and he tried in vain to coerce them. Eventually, and partly for this See also:reason, he almost completely reorganized his cabinet. The effect of the incident on the See also:political fortunes of the See also:vice-president, John C. See also:Calhoun, whose wife was one of the recalcitrants, was perhaps most important. Partly on this See also:account, Jackson's favour was transferred from Calhoun to See also:Martin See also:Van Buren, the secretary of See also:state, who had taken See also:Jack-son's See also:side in the See also:quarrel and had shown marked See also:attention to Mrs Eaton, and whose subsequent elevation to the vice-See also:presidency and presidency through Jackson's favour is no doubt partly attributable to this incident. In 1836 Mrs Eaton accompanied [her See also:husband to See also:Spain, where he was United States See also:minister .in 1836-1840.

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death of her husband she married a See also:young See also:Italian dancing-See also:master, See also:Antonio Buchignani; but soon obtained a See also:divorce from him. She died in Washington on the 8th of See also:November 1879. See See also:James See also:Parton's See also:Life of See also:Andrew Jackson (New See also:York, 1860).

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