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The Democratic-Republican Party was an American political party formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1791â93 to oppose the centralizing policies of the new Federalist Party run by Alexander Hamilton, who was then Secretary of the Treasury and chief architect of George Washington's administration.
The term Democratic-Republican is used especially by modern political scientists for the first  Republican Party  (as it called itself at the time), also known as the Jeffersonian Republicans. Historians typically use the title Republican Party. It was the second political party in the United States, and was organized by then Thomas Jefferson and his friend James Madison in 1791â93, to oppose the Federalist Party run by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.