... newly vacant offices. Although Jackson insisted that this post-inaugural job shuffle was simply a "rotation in office," the scheme was dubbed "the spoils system" after Senator William Marcy's comment on the matter: "To the victors belong the spoils of the enemy." A notable beneficiary of such spoils and an old friend of Jackson, the infamous Samuel ... ...

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