Martin Van Buren. Andrew Jackson was the first president from the Democratic Party, but alot of their beliefs were based on the party that Thomas Jefferson started the Democratic - Republican Party.
Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic Republicans. His administration was an example of what came to be called Jefferson Democracy. He opposed a federal bank and wealthy interests against the working man. This group splinted in later years and Andrew Jackson was the first democrat elected president.
The first, pre civil war Democratic Party was founded to put Andrew Jackson in the White House. The post civil war Party was founded with no particular leader in mind, as a counter to the Republicans who pretty much had control during the Civil War. It was made up of Southern whites and those Northerners who sympathized with the South or did not want to join the Republicans.
His beliefs were in line with Jeffersonian-Republicans, in the election of 1824 he was considered a Democratic-Republican, by the 1828 election he dropped Republican and became the first president of the Democratic party. Don't confuse his Democratic party with the modern Democratic party. The names/party is the same, but ideas on the role of government are different.
The democratic party itself is generally quite accepting, but the people in the party could have their own ideas.
The Democratic-Republican party of the late 18th and early 19th centuries became the modern Democratic party.
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So, sometime between the 1860s and 1936, the (Democratic) party of small government became the party of big government, and the (Republican) party of big government became rhetorically committed to curbing federal power.
He was a Democratic-republican. Jefferson and Madison created the Democratic Republican Party to oppose the Federalist Party.
The question is backward: Jefferson's Democratic-Republican Party (formerly called the Anti-Federalists) split into the National Republican Party and the Democratic Party after the contested Presidential election of 1824.
After Andrew Jackson's election in 1828, his party became known as the Democratic party.
Jackson became the leader of a new party called the Democratic party.
The Anti-Federalists party became the Democratic-Republican Party.
Democratic-Republicans and The Federalist Party
After Andrew Jackson's election in 1828, his party became known as the Democratic party.