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TIL of the Petticoat affair. Between 1829 to 1831, nearly the entirety of Andrew Jackson's cabinet resigned after a group of their wives, led by Second Lady Floride Calhoun, socially ostracized Se... (en.wikipedia.org)

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Original Title: TIL of the Petticoat affair. Between 1829 to 1831, nearly the entirety of Andrew Jackson's cabinet resigned after a group of their wives, led by Second Lady Floride Calhoun, socially ostracized Secretary of War John Eaton's wife Peggy because she didn't "meet the moral standards of a Cabinet wife."

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