He was the Democratic lawyer. He served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812. He was the member of Tennessee House of Representatives from 1815 to 1816 and a U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1818 to 1821 and again from 1821 to 1829. His apparent age of Xxviii at a instance of his inauguration is notable; it contradicted a Me Constitution's requirement that tons Senators become across a age of Xxx. At a period, several humans did non understand their actual birth records; although these are non certain what occurred in that outbreak. Anyway, whenever challenged, he stand referred to last under-aged Senators Armistead Mason or Henry Clay.

He was the close individual friend of Andrew Jackson; after Jackson became President he, along with Postmaster General, Amos Kendall, were the merely members of the official Cabinet who were also the member of Jackson's informal circle of consultant typically satirically known as by Jackson knocker a "Kitchen Cabinet". (Apparently this class action did, as a matter of fact, oftentimes meet in the White House kitchen.) He resigned his Senate seat in 1829 sequentially to require higher appointment when Jackson's Secretary of War, a post where he served from either 1829 to 1831, when he resigned from either the Cabinet across a scandal concerning his second married woman, Peggy, that was referred to as a Petticoat Affair. He was late Governor of Florida Territory from 1834 to 1836 and United States Minister to Spain from 1836 to 1840.

Eaton, the Freemason, died in Washington, D.C. on November 17, 1856. He was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, Inland northwest, D.C.

Eaton County, Michigan is named inside his honor.

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