Kitchen Cabinet
No sooner than taking office Jackson surrounded himself with advisers had that helped him win the White House. While some of these men were in Jackson’s official cabinet most were part of the un-official cabinet dubbed the Kitchen Cabinet. The foremost of these men were: Amos Kendal, Francis P. Blair who was chosen to edit the mouthpiece of the party The Washington Globe, Thomas H. Benton, who because of his hard money beliefs, was nick named "Old Bullion". He was Jackson’s power in the Senate. Martin Van Buren of New York, Jackson’s first Secretary of State then Vice President and Jackson’s successor in the White House. Van Buren brought with him the Wall Street bankers' jealous opinion that New York not Philadelphia should be the Banking center of the country. These men shared similar opinions on the welfare of the Union as did Jackson.