Jackson Administrations - The Jackson Administration Legacy
The Jackson Administration Legacy
Seventy years old and in poor health, Jackson did not stand for a third term. Instead, he engineered the nomination of his protégé, Martin Van Buren, as the Democratic candidate for the 1836 campaign. The party that Jackson had helped to create did not question the choice of the outgoing president, and in fact Van Buren was an able politician, though his leadership remained to be tested.
So total was Jackson's domination of the federal government during his administration that by 1836 a new party had formed among the National Republicans, led by Henry Clay and Democrats who had defected from Jackson. They had defected for several reasons: Jackson's indiscriminate use of the veto; his treatment of the Indians; his war against the bank; and his perceived bullying of South Carolina. This new party called themselves the Whigs, after the party opposed to the English monarchy. It was the hope of...
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