# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/margaret-o-neill-eaton
# Generated: 2026-08-16T01:13:34.672Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/margaret-o-neill-eaton"
name: "Margaret O'Neill Eaton"
slug: "margaret-o-neill-eaton"
description: "Margaret Eaton, 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. Their marriage was the cause of a national controversy known as the Petticoat affair. While better known in history as Peggy, Margaret stated in her autobiography, \"I never was called Peggy in all my life...I was ordinarily called by my proper name of Margaret.\""
tagline: "American politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Margaret_Peggy_O'Neal_Eaton_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1799-12-03"
deathDate: "1879-11-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.91
  momentum:             2.147505422993492
  historical:           4.673656
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "مارجريت اونيل ايتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Eaton"
    title: "Peggy Eaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Eaton"
    title: "Peggy Eaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_O'Neill_Eaton"
    title: "Margaret O'Neill Eaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AC%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3"
    title: "マーガレット・オニール・イートン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3290517"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump