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After being elected to the Presidency in 1828, Andrew Jackson’s first term was wracked by a controversy that erupted over the wife of his Secretary of War. Margaret Eaton was, according to Washington’s “political wives,” an “immoral woman to be avoided at all costs,” writes the historian Kristen E. Wood in her fascinating account published in the Journal of the Early Republic.

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