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Andrew Jackson

Presidency

Who composed Jackson’s unofficial “Kitchen Cabinet?”

Jackson’s “Kitchen Cabinet” consisted of Martin Van Buren—his former secretary of state who would become his vice president in his second term; Francis Preston Blair, the editor of the Washington Globe; Amos Kendell, the editor of two newspapers and later Jackson’s postmaster general; William B. Lewis, who formerly served as quartermaster under General Jackson; Andrew Jackson Donelson, his nephew; John Overton, his longtime friend and business partner; and Roger B. Taney, his attorney general whom he later nominated as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.



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