Kitchen Cabinet was a nickname the enemies of President Andrew Jackson gave to a group of his political advisers. Most of these advisers were not members of the president’s official Cabinet. During Jackson’s first Administration (1829-1833), he held few regular Cabinet meetings and consulted this unofficial cabinet instead. Critics objected to the influence they believed these advisers had on Jackson. Leading members of the Kitchen Cabinet included Secretary of State Martin Van Buren; Major William B. Lewis, second auditor of the United States Treasury; Isaac Hill, United States senator and former editor of the New Hampshire Patriot; Amos Kendall, auditor of the Treasury; and Francis P. Blair, Sr., editor of the Washington Globe. See also Jackson, Andrew .
