Jackson’s secretary off battle, John Henry Eaton, was a vintage armed forces comrade, Jackson’s their campaign biographer, and a Tennessee neighbor. He was the latest President’s you to personal confidante into the a cupboard made right up of near-complete strangers. Just before new inauguration, Eaton got married Margaret O’Neale Timberlake, new lively daughter regarding a washington hotelier. Scandalous reports circulated from the “Peggy” O’Neale, whoever basic spouse, an excellent purser from the Navy, had passed away abroad significantly less than mysterious factors soon just before their own matrimony in order to Eaton. Rumor asserted that the guy the full time committing suicide more than their particular dalliance that have Eaton. Closet wives, plus Calhoun’s wife Floride, thought about Peggy with abhorrence and you can prominently shunned their particular. Continuar leyendo “Jackson was already are estranged out of Calhoun more a simmering Washington scandal”