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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cabinet, President's (search)
1893 Lyman J. Gage March 5, 1897 March 5, 1901 Secretaries of War. Henry Knox Sept. 12, 1789 Timothy Pickering Jan. 2, 1795 James McHenryJan. 27, 1796 Samuel Dexter May 13, 1800 Roger Griswold Feb. 3, 1801 Henry Dearborn March 5, 1801 William Eustis March 7, 1809 John Armstrong Jan. 13, 1813 James Monroe Sept.27, 1814 William H. Crawford Aug. 1, 1815 George Graham Ad interim John C. Calhoun Oct. 8, 1817 James Barbour March 7, 1825 Peter B. Porter May 26, 1828 John H. Eaton March 9, 1829 Lewis Cass Aug. 1, 1831 Joel R. Poinsett .March 7, 1837 John Bell March 5,1841 John C. Spencer Oct. 12, 1841 James M. Porter March 8, 1843 William Wilkins Feb. 15, 1844 William L. Marcy March 6, 1845 George W. Crawford March 8, 1841 Charles M. Conrad Aug.15, 1850 Jefferson Davis March 5, 1853 John B. Floyd March 6, 1857 Joseph Holt Jan. 18, 1861 Simon Cameron March 5, 1861 Edwin M. Stanton Jan. 15, 1862 Ulysses S. Grant, ad interimAug.12, 1867 Lorenzo Tho
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Eaton, John Henry, 1787-1856 (search)
Eaton, John Henry, 1787-1856 Statesman; born in Tennessee in 1787; was United States Senator from Tennessee in 1818-29; resigned to become Secretary of War under President Jackson; appointed governor of Florida Territory in 1834; resigned to become United States minister to Spain in 1836. He published a Life of Andrew Jackson, who was his colleague in the Senate for two years. He died in Washington, D. C., Nov. 17, 1856. See Eaton, Margaret L. O'Neill.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Eaton, Margaret L. O'Neill, 1796-1879 (search)
hotel-keeper in Washington; born in 1796, and after the death of her first husband, John B. Timberlake, she married John Henry Eaton, United States Senator from Tennessee. Upon the appointment of her husband to the office of Secretary of War, Mrs. Mrs. Eaton was not recognized socially by the wives of the other members of the cabinet. President Jackson interfered, and demanded that Mrs. Eaton should receive the usual social courtesies. In consequence of these social quarrels, a disruption of the manded that Mrs. Eaton should receive the usual social courtesies. In consequence of these social quarrels, a disruption of the cabinet took place in 1831. After Mr. Eaton's death his widow married an Italian. She died in Washington, Nov. 8, 1879.anded that Mrs. Eaton should receive the usual social courtesies. In consequence of these social quarrels, a disruption of the cabinet took place in 1831. After Mr. Eaton's death his widow married an Italian. She died in Washington, Nov. 8, 1879.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Florida, (search)
as taken possession of about the same time by Commander C. R. P. Rogers, and the alarmed Confederates abandoned Pensacola and the fortifications opposite Fort Pickens. Before the middle of April the whole Atlantic coast from Cape Hatteras to Perdido Bay, west of Fort Pickens (excepting Charleston and its vicinity), had been abandoned by the Confederates. See United States, Florida, vol. IX. Territorial governors. NameTerm. Andrew Jackson1821 to 1822 William P. Duval1822 to 1834 John H. Eaton1834 to 1836 Richard K. Call1836 to 1839 Robert R. Reid1839 to 1841 Richard K. Call1841 to 1844 John Branch1844 to 1845 State governors. NameTerm. William D. Moseley1845 to 1849 Thomas Brown1849 to 1853 James E. Broome1853 to 1857 Madison S. Perry1857 to 1861 John Milton1861 to 1865 William Marvin1865 to 1866 David S. Walker1866 to 1868 Harrison Reed1868 to 1872 Ossian B. Hart1872 to 1874 Marcellus L. Stearns1874 to 1877 George F. Drew1877 to 1881 William D. Bloxham188
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Tennessee, (search)
th1796 to 1797 William Cocke4th to 9th1796 to 1805 Joseph Anderson5th1797 to 1798 Andrew Jackson5th1797 to 1798 Daniel Smith5th1798 Joseph Anderson6th to 14th1799 to 1815 Daniel Smith9th to 11th1805 to 1809 Jenkin Whiteside11th to 12th1809 to 1811 George W. Campbell12th to 13th1811 to 1814 Jesse Wharton13th to 14th1814 to 1815 John Williams14th to 18th1815 to 1823 George W. Campbell14th to 15th1815 to 1818 United States Senators—--continued. Name.No. of Congress.Term. John Henry Eaton15th to 21st1818 to 1829 Andrew Jackson18th to 19th1823 to 1825 Hugh Lawson White19th to 26th1825 to 1840 Felix Grundy21st to 25th1829 to 1838 Ephraim H. Foster25th to 26th1838 to 1839 Alexander Anderson26th to 27th1840 to 1841 Felix Grundy26th1839 to 1840 Alfred O. P. Nicholson26th to 28th1841 to 1843 Ephraim H. Foster28th to 29th1843 to 1845 Spencer Jarnagin28th to 30th1843 to 1847 Hopkins L. Turney29th to 32d1845 to 1851 John Bell30th to 36th1847 to 1859 James C. Jones32d
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
elphia, Pa., Francis Granger, of New York, presiding......September, 1830 Second session convenes......Dec. 6, 1830......Senate rejects the award of the King of the Netherlands as arbitrator of the boundary between Maine and Great Britain......Jan. 10, 1831 First locomotive built in the United States, The best friend, at the West Point foundry shops in New York City; first trip on the South Carolina Railroad......Jan. 15, 1831 Twenty-first Congress adjourns......March 3, 1831 John H. Eaton, Secretary of War, resigns......April 7, 1831 Martin Van Buren, Secretary of State, resigns......April 7, 1831 Ex-President James Monroe dies in New York, aged seventy-three......July 4, 1831 Negro insurrection led by Nat Turner, in Southampton county......August, 1831 President Jackson reforms his cabinet......1831 Anti-Masonic party hold a national convention at Baltimore, Md., and nominate William Wirt, of Virginia, for President, and Amos Ellmaker, of Pennsylvania, f
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Florida, (search)
urrender their lands in Florida for an equal area in Indian Territory, agreeing to remove within three years......May 9, 1833 Additional treaty made at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, with representative chiefs of Seminoles, assigning them a tract in the Indian Territory......March 28, 1834 Proclamation of President Jackson announcing the ratification of the treaty of Payne's Landing and Fort Gibson......April 12, 1834 State-house in Tallahassee begun, 1826; finished......1834 John H. Eaton appointed territorial governor......1834 United States officer at Fort King notifies General Thompson, Indian agent for Florida, of the determination of influential chiefs of Florida Indians not to emigrate......October, 1834 Severest cold ever known in Florida; the St. John's River frozen several rods from the shore, and thermometer marks 7° above zero, a northwest wind for three days......about Feb. 8, 1835 A council at the Indian agency extends. time for removal to Jan. 1,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tennessee, (search)
north of lat. 35° and east of the Mississippi River, known as the Jackson purchase......Oct. 19, 1818 First conveyance of town lots in Memphis made......May, 1819 Madison county organized and Jackson settled......1820 Capital permanently fixed at Nashville......1826 University of Nashville, founded in 1785, incorporated as Cumberland College in 1806, reorganized in 1824, and name changed......1827 Andrew Jackson elected President of the United States......Nov. 11, 1828 John H. Eaton appointed Secretary of War.......March 9, 1829 Act for a State system of internal improvements......Jan. 2, 1830 Joel Parrish, cashier of the State Bank, proves a defaulter for $200,000, and the bank wound up soon after......Jan. 3, 1830 Memphis Railroad chartered......December, 1831 Andrew Jackson re-elected President of the United States......Nov. 13, 1832 Conviction of John A. Murrell, of Madison county, the great western land pirate and leader of the mystic clan, a ban