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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeEATON, John Henry
(1790—1856)
Senate Years of Service:
1818-1821; 1821-1829
Party:
Democratic Republican; Jackson Republican; Jacksonian
EATON, John Henry, a Senator from Tennessee; born near Scotland Neck, Halifax County, N.C., June 18, 1790; attended the common schools and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1803 and 1804; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Franklin, Tenn.; member, State house of representatives 1815-1816; appointed in 1818 and subsequently elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George W. Campbell and served from September 5, 1818, to March 3, 1821; elected as a Jackson Republican to the Senate in September 1821, and as a Jacksonian in 1826 and served from September 27, 1821, until March 9, 1829, when he resigned to accept a Cabinet position; chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Twentieth Congress); appointed Secretary of War by President Andrew Jackson and served from 1829 to 1831, when he resigned; Governor, Territory of Florida 1834-1836; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain 1836-1840; died in Washington, D.C., November 17, 1856; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography
; Eaton, John Henry. The Life of Andrew Jackson
. 1817. Reprint. University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1974; Lawrence, Frank, ed. The Life of Andrew Jackson, John Reid, and John Eaton
. University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1974.
Eaton, Margaret O’Neale. The Autobiography of Peggy Eaton
. 1932. Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1980.
Hay, Robert P. “The Case for Andrew Jackson in 1824: Eaton’s ‘Wyoming Letters’.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly
29 (Summer 1970): 139-51.
Latner, Richard B. “The Eaton Affair Reconsidered.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly
36 (Fall 1977): 330-51.
Lowe, Gabriel L., Jr. “John H. Eaton, Jackson’s Campaign Manager.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly
11 (June 1952): 99-147.
McKellar, Kenneth. “John H. Eaton,” in Tennessee Senators as seen by one of their Successors
. Kingsport, Tenn.: Southern Publishers, Inc., 1942, 147-158.
Ratner, Lorman A. “John Henry Eaton: A Lost Man.” In Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants: A Study in Political Culture
, pp. 83-90. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Reid, John, and John Henry Eaton. The Life of Andrew Jackson
. 1817. Reprint. Edited, with introduction, by Frank Lawrence Owsley, Jr. University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1974.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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