Kitchen Cabinet

in American politics, a term of derision applied to certain intimate political friends of President Andrew Jackson. They were: Amos Kendall of Kentucky, political manager and "moving spring of the administration"; Isaac Hill, editor of the New Hampshire Patriot; Mayor William B. Lewis of Nashville, second auditor of the treasury; and General Duff Green, the editor of the administration organ at Washington, the United States Telegraph. These men are reputed to have had greater influence than the members of President Jackson's official cabinet.