The Democratic party is the oldest existing political party in America. Democrats have won 19 of 42 presidential elections since the party first ran a presidential candidate (Andrew Jackson) in 1828.

Jackson seized on his supporters’ frustrations, reorganizing the Democratic-Republican Party, which ultimately rebranded itself as the Democratic Party, in his own image.

The portrait of President Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered for the first time as the 47th president.

Jackson seized on his supporters’ frustrations, reorganizing the Democratic-Republican Party, which ultimately rebranded itself as the Democratic Party, in his own image.

What Andrew Jackson Thought About Tariffs. ... It was a major issue in that year’s election that swept Jackson and his new party, the Democratic Republicans, into power.

It was the Whig Party, which developed out of opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson in the 1830s. The Whig Party and Democratic Party were the major parties at the time.