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Who was called the Father of the Spoils System?
Andrew Jackson.
Term for opponent of spoils system reform?
stalwart
Does the spoils system still exist?
I don't know. Why does it matter? I'm not a politician!
What ended the spoil system?
The law that ended the spoils system came with the passage of the Pendleton Act in 1883
What did marcy means by the spoils of the enemy?
Senator William I Marcy supported Andrew Jackson's replacement of John Quincy Adam's appointees by referring to the idea that "to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy." So, in a sense, Jackson created the "spoils system" of political patronage.
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