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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.
Dec 20, 2019 · The Eaton Affair, also known as the Petticoat Affair (and even the Petticoat War), opens a window into the gender politics of the dawn of the Jacksonian Era. Essentially a sex scandal , by 1831 the Eaton Affair was a national political issue, raising questions of manhood, womanhood, Presidential power, politics, and morality.
Jun 12, 2006 · President Andrew Jackson was irate, convinced that he was the victim of ‘one of the most base and wicked conspiracies.’. For him, the scandal known as ‘the petticoat affair” was a social matter that his enemies had exploited and blown out of proportion. It was true that the situation had taken on a life of its own.
Jul 21, 2023 · The Petticoat Affair — also known as the Peggy Eaton Affair — was a political scandal that took place from 1829 to 1831. It involved President Andrew Jackson, First Lady Emily Donelson, the members of his cabinet, and the wives of his cabinet members.
- Randal Rust
Jun 26, 2022 · The Eaton Affair, sometimes insultingly called the “Petticoat Affair,” began as a disagreement among elite women in Washington, D.C., but it eventually led to the disbanding of Jackson’s cabinet. True to his backwoods reputation, when he took office in 1829, President Jackson chose mostly provincial politicians, not Washington veterans ...
Jul 21, 2023 · After Andrew Jackson formed his Cabinet and appointed John Eaton Secretary of War, rumors about Peggy and John Eaton began to circulate in the inner circles of the administration. The rumors implied that Peggy’s past was marked by sexual promiscuity and that while working at her father’s tavern, she had had affairs with the clients.
On April 2nd, 1828, John B. Timberlake, a tall, blond and inefficient purser in the United States Navy, died on board the frigate Constitution. The ship’s record gives the cause of death as “pulmonary disease.”. But long memories recalled that Timberlake had earlier attempted suicide, and rumour ran that his wife’s misconduct had sent ...
