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Benjamin H Eaton was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Colorado from 1885 until 1887.
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Horace Eaton was an American politician. He was a Whig governor of Vermont from 1846 until 1848.
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John H Eaton was an American politician. He was born in 1790 and died in 1856. He was a US Senator from Tennessee from 1818 until 1829, Secretary of War in Andrew Jackson's Cabinet from 1829 until 1831, and Minister to Spain from 1836 until 1840. He was one of Andrew Jackson's closest friends and political advisers.
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John Lubbock (first Baron Avebury) was an English banker and naturalist. He was born in 1834 at London and died in 1912. Educated at Eaton he entered the banking firm of Robarts, Lubbock and Company in 1848 and succeeded his father as head of the firm in 1865. From 1870 until 1880 he was Liberal member of parliament for Maidstone and from 1880 until 1900 member for London University, sitting as a Liberal-Unionist from 1885 until 1900. In 1900 he was raised to the peerage as the first Baron Avebury. He was responsible for the 1881 Bank Holidays Act, and was also instrumental in the 1886 Shop Hours Regulation Act and the 1904 Bill of Exchange Act.
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John Torrey WAS AN American botanist. He was born in 1796 at New York and died in 1873. Early in his life he came under the influence of Amos Eaton, a natural history pioneer in America. In 1836 he was appointed botanist to New York state, from 1838 until 1843 he published the earlier parts of his Flora of North America, and in 1843 his Flora of New York State. Torrey's name is commemorated in the coniferous genus Torreya
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Margaret Eaton (Peggy O'Neill) was the wife of American politician John H Eaton. She was born in 1796 and died in 1879. When John H Eaton became Secretary of War she was refused recognition by the families of the Cabinet members because of her low social background. Her cause was supported by president Andrew Jackson, who attempted to enforce her recognition, which led to the disruption of the Cabinet in 1831.
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Reuben Eaton Fenton was an American politician. He was born in 1819 at New York and died in 1885. He was a Representative to Congress from New York from 1857 until 1864, when he was elected Governor and served until 1868. He succeeded B. D. Morgan in the US Senate and served from 1869 until 1875, and was chairman of the US Commission at the Paris International Monetary Conference in 1878. He was a prominent Republican leader.
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Theophilus Eaton was an English merchant and colonist. He was born in 1591 and died in 1658. A prosperous merchant, he went to Massachusetts in 1637, explored the Connecticut coast, and in 1638 established a colony at New Haven, of which he became one of the government and was made the first Governor. He was one of the commissioners who formed the United Colonies of New England in 1643.
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Thomas Tusser was an English musician, farmer and poet. He was born about 1524 at Rivenhall, Essex and died in 1580. He became a chorister at Wallingford and later at St Paul's Cathedral, London, completing his education at Eaton, King's College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. For ten years he was a musician to Lord Paget, leaving him to farm at Cattiwade, Suffolk. Although not very successful as a farmer he wrote 'Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie' published in 1577.
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William Eaton was an American statesman. He was born in 1764 at Connecticut and died in 1811. He served in the American War of Independence from 1780 until 1783 and was Clerk of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1791 until 1797. He was Consul at Tunis, where he conducted important negotiations from 1799 until 1803, and was US Naval Agent to the Barbary States from 1804 until 1805. In 1805 he conducted the Derne expedition.
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