Jackson cabinet
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.
The Cabinet
Department / Office | Official | Period | image |
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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
- ↑ Only Spiro Agnew 1973 would repeat this in the further course of US history .