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.
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-Republican party of the late 18th and early 19th centuries became the modern Democratic party.
The democratic party itself is generally quite accepting, but the people in the party could have their own ideas.
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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.
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.
He was a Democratic-republican. Jefferson and Madison created the Democratic Republican Party to oppose the Federalist Party.
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.
Yes, he did. He found the Democratic party and became part of it. And it was Republican.
By most accounts, the Democratic Party emerged in the 1830s, led by Martin Van Buren, who became president in 1837.