"To the victor belong the spoils." For decades in the 1800s, that phrase was more than a slogan; it was the official hiring ...

A cartoon of President Andrew Jackson atop a pig depicts his spoils system, which rewarded party ... where he served from 1829 through 1837. Considered a plum assignment, the job at the time ...

The trouble started in the 1820s when Andrew Jackson rebelled against the political ... a label for the politics of the era: the spoils system. The spoils system propagated like a pernicious ...