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  2. Petticoat affair - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Peggy Eaton - Wikipedia

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    Cigar box shows President Jackson introduced to Peggy (left) and two lovers fighting a duel over her (right). 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.

  4. Floride Calhoun - Wikipedia

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    During her tenure as Second Lady, she took the lead in a social war against Peggy Eaton, the wife of Secretary of War John Eaton, in what became known as the Petticoat affair. Calhoun had organized a coalition among the wives of Jackson cabinet members against Peggy Eaton, who Calhoun believed had committed adultery and was acting irresponsibly ...

  5. In Pictures: Husbands take their wives for a ride in the ...

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    Couples faced a whole series of obstacles during the wife-carrying race. ... In Pictures: Husbands take their wives for a ride in the marriage stakes. PA. April 10, 2022 at 7:11 AM.

  6. John Eaton (politician) - Wikipedia

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    Eaton and his wife Peggy became the focus of controversy during Jackson's first term; in the so-called Petticoat affair, Washington's society wives refused to socialize with the Eatons. The wives of the vice president, cabinet members, and members of Congress looked down on Peggy because of the circumstances of her marriage to Eaton; they had ...

  7. Counting down the top 25 hottest wives and girlfriends in sports

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    We decided to celebrate the beautiful women who may or may not get the fame of their boyfriends and husbands.

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  9. Emily Donelson - Wikipedia

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    Emily Tennessee Donelson was born on June 1, 1807, in Donelson, Tennessee, [1]: 123 as the 13th child [2]: 5 of Mary Purnell (1763–1848) and John Donelson (1755–1830), the brother of Rachel Donelson Jackson, the wife of future President Andrew Jackson.