After the assassination of James A. Garfield by a rejected office-seeker in 1881, the calls for civil service reform intensified.
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This became known as the spoils system and became popular in the United States during the presidency of Andrew Jackson.
The United States civil service began to run on the spoils system in 1829 when Andrew Jackson became president.