Jackson cabinet

Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States

Andrew Jackson , the seventh President of the United States , marks a turning point in US history with his term of office. He was the first incumbent who did not come from the circle of the founding fathers ; During his presidency, today's modern party system began to develop in the USA . After he had run as one of four candidates for the Democratic Republican Party in 1824 , which led to a split in the party, and had occupied second place behind John Quincy Adams , he challenged him four years later as the first candidate for the new Democratic Party and won. Adams had meanwhile joined the National Republicans.

In 1832 Jackson appeared a second time and won against Henry Clay . With the former Foreign Minister Martin Van Buren , he had a new Vice President at his side, since his predecessor John C. Calhoun had resigned in the last year of his term in office.

After Secretary of War Lewis Cass left the cabinet in October 1836 to become ambassador to France , the post was no longer officially filled. Attorney General Benjamin Franklin Butler took over the duties on a temporary basis until the end of Jackson's presidency the following March.

Satirical depiction of Jackson's cabinet in his second term.

The Cabinet

Department / Office	Official	Period	image
President of the United States	Andrew Jackson	1829-1837
Vice President of the United States	John Caldwell Calhoun	1829-1832
	vacant	1832-1833
	Martin Van Buren	1833-1837
United States Secretary of State	Martin Van Buren	1829-1831
	Edward Livingston	1831-1833
	Louis McLane	1833-1834
	John Forsyth	1834-1837
United States Secretary of the Treasury	Samuel Delucenna Ingham	1829-1831
	Louis McLane	1831-1833
	William John Duane	1833
	Roger Brooke Taney	1833-1834
	Levi Woodbury	1834-1837
United States Secretary of War	John Henry Eaton	1829-1831
	Lewis Cass	1831-1836
United States Secretary of the Navy	John Branch	1829-1831
	Levi Woodbury	1831-1834
	Mahlon Dickerson	1834-1837
United States Attorney General	John MacPherson Berrien	1829-1831
	Roger Brooke Taney	1831-1833
	Benjamin Franklin Butler	1833-1837
United States Postal Secretary	William Taylor Barry	1832-1835
	Amos Kendall	1835-1837

References and comments

1. ↑ Only Spiro Agnew 1973 would repeat this in the further course of US history .