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American Scoundrel John Eaton

True Crime Historian by Richard O Jones

Apr 23, 202610:11Society & Culture

Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War spent a decade courting a married woman, arranged her husband's convenient posting to the Mediterranean, and married her six weeks before the 1829 inauguration. The Cabinet collapsed. Ca...

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American Scoundrel John Eaton is an episode from True Crime Historian by Richard O Jones. Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War spent a decade courting a married woman, arranged her husband's convenient posting to the Mediterranean, and married...

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Published Apr 23, 2026 and 10:11 long