1828 in the United States

Events from the year 1828 in the United States.

Federal government

 * President: John Quincy Adams (DR/NR-Massachusetts)
 * Vice President: John C. Calhoun (D-South Carolina)
 * Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia)
 * Speaker of the House of Representatives: Andrew Stevenson (D-Virginia)
 * Congress: 20th

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Governors

 * Governor of Alabama: John Murphy (Democratic)
 * Governor of Connecticut: Gideon Tomlinson (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Delaware: Charles Polk, Jr. (Federalist)
 * Governor of Georgia: John Forsyth (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Illinois: Ninian Edwards (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Indiana: James B. Ray (Independent)
 * Governor of Kentucky: Joseph Desha (Democratic-Republican) (until August 26), Thomas Metcalfe (National Republican) (starting August 26)
 * Governor of Louisiana: Henry Johnson (National Republican) (until December 15), Pierre Derbigny (National Republican) (starting December 15)
 * Governor of Maine: Enoch Lincoln (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Maryland: Joseph Kent (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Massachusetts: Levi Lincoln, Jr. (National Republican)
 * Governor of Mississippi: Gerard Brandon (Democratic)
 * Governor of Missouri: John Miller (Democratic)
 * Governor of New Hampshire: Benjamin Pierce (Democratic-Republican) (until June 5), John Bell (National Republican) (starting June 5)
 * Governor of New Jersey: Isaac Halstead Williamson (Federalist)
 * Governor of New York:
 * until February 11: DeWitt Clinton (Democratic-Republican)
 * February 11-December 31: Nathaniel Pitcher (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of North Carolina: James Iredell, Jr. (Democratic-Republican) (until December 12), John Owen (Democratic) (starting December 12)
 * Governor of Ohio: Allen Trimble (Federalist)
 * Governor of Pennsylvania: John Andrew Shulze (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Rhode Island: James Fenner (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of South Carolina: John Taylor (Democratic-Republican) (until December 10), Stephen Decatur Miller (Democratic) (starting December 10)
 * Governor of Tennessee: Sam Houston (Democratic-Republican)
 * Governor of Vermont: Ezra Butler (National Republican) (until October 10), Samuel C. Crafts (National Republican) (starting October 10)
 * Governor of Virginia: William Branch Giles (Democratic)

Lieutenant governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: John Samuel Peters (National Republican)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: William Kinney (Democratic-Republican)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: John H. Thompson (Democratic-Republican) (until December 3), Milton Stapp (Independent) (starting December 3)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Robert B. McAfee (Democratic-Republican) (until August 26), John Breathitt (Democratic) (starting August 26)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Thomas L. Winthrop (Democratic-Republican)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: vacant (until month and day unknown), Abram M. Scott (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: vacant (until November 17), Daniel Dunklin (Democratic) (starting November 17)
 * Lieutenant Governor of New York:
 * until February 11: Nathaniel Pitcher (Democratic-Republican)
 * February 11-October 17: Peter R. Livingston (Democratic-Republican)
 * October 17-end of December 31: Charles Dayan (Democratic-Republican)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Charles Collins (political party unknown)
 * Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: James Witherspoon (Democratic-Republican) (until December 10), Thomas Williams (Democratic) (starting December 10)
 * Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Henry Olin (Democratic-Republican)
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Events

 * January 8 – Democratic Party is established.
 * February 19 – The Boston Society for Medical Improvement is established.
 * February 21 – The Cherokee Phœnix, the first newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States and in one of their indigenous languages (Cherokee), is first issued in New Echota.
 * May 19 – The Tariff of 1828 is enacted. Critics name it the 'Tariff of Abominations' because they see it as unfairly protective of northern industry to the detriment of the southern economy.
 * July 4 – Construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad commences with a cornerstone laid by Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
 * July 9 – The 1828–29 United States House of Representatives elections commence; they will increase the majority of the Jacksonian Democrats.
 * August 11 – The Working Men's Party is founded in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the 1st 'worker oriented' political party in the United States.
 * October 27 – Gold is discovered by Benjamin Parks in or near Cherokee First Nation land in Hall County - later reorganized into Lumpkin County - in, Georgia.
 * December 3 – U.S. presidential election: Challenger Andrew Jackson beats incumbent John Quincy Adams and is elected President of the United States.
 * December 19 – A document written by U.S. Vice President John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, is presented to the South Carolina House of Representatives protesting the 'Tariff of Abominations'.
 * December 20 – The Georgia state legislature charters the Medical Academy of Georgia, which becomes the Medical College of Georgia, and authorizes it to award a Bachelor of Medicine degree, making it the 13th oldest U.S. medical school and the 6th public medical school to be established.

Undated

 * White comedian Thomas D. Rice introduces blackface and the song "Jump Jim Crow" to American audiences.
 * Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language is published.
 * A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, a novel by Washington Irving, is published and popularizes the common misconception that Europeans thought the Earth was flat prior to the explorations of Columbus.
 * John Neal publishes Rachel Dyer, the first hardcover novelized version of the Salem witch trials story
 * Two minor political parties are formed: The single-issue Anti-Masonic Party in upstate New York, and the Nullifier Party advocating states' rights in opposition to the 'Tariff of Abominations'.
 * American Peace Society established.
 * A ring spinning machine is developed in the U.S.

Ongoing

 * 20th United States Congress

Births

 * January 2 – George M. Chilcott, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1882 to 1883 (died 1891)
 * January 28 – Thomas C. Hindman, U.S. Representative from Arkansas from 1859 to 1861 and Confederate general (murdered 1868)
 * May 26 – Benjamin F. Rice, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1868 to 1873 (died 1905)
 * March 24 – Horace Gray, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1902)
 * April 28 – Richard Arnold, Union Army brigadier general (died 1882)
 * June 2 – James Cutler Dunn Parker, organist and composer (died 1916)
 * July 8 – David Turpie, U.S. Senator from Indiana in 1863 and from 1887 to 1899 (died 1909)
 * July 14 – Jervis McEntee, painter of the Hudson River School (died 1891)
 * August 6 – Andrew Taylor Still, "father of osteopathy" (died 1917)
 * August 28 – William A. Hammond, military physician and neurologist, 11th Surgeon General of the U.S. Army from 1862 to 1864 (died 1900)
 * September 8
 * Joshua Chamberlain, leader of the 20th Maine during the Civil War, Governor of Maine, President of Bowdoin College (died 1914)
 * Clarence Cook, art critic and writer (died 1900)
 * October 19 – James F. Wilson, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1883 to 1895 (died 1895)
 * October 20 – Horatio Spafford, author of the hymn "It Is Well with My Soul" (died 1888)
 * October 26 – William M. Robbins, U.S. Representative from North Carolina (died 1905)
 * October 29 – Thomas F. Bayard, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1869 to 1885 and U.S. Secretary of State from 1885 until 1889 (died 1898)
 * November 17 – Milton Wright, bishop of the United Brethren Church and father of aviation pioneers the Wright brothers (died 1917)
 * December 8 – Clinton B. Fisk, temperance leader (died 1890)

Deaths

 * February 11 – DeWitt Clinton, 6th Governor of New York, U.S. Senator (born 1769)
 * March 25 – Maria Reynolds, mistress of Alexander Hamilton (born 1768)
 * June 1 – Lyncoya Jackson, 2nd adopted son of Andrew Jackson (born c. 1811)
 * June 6 – John Kinzie, Fur trader responsible for "the first murder in Chicago", when he killed Jean La Lime in 1812 (born December 23, 1763)
 * July 9 – Gilbert Stuart, painter (born 1755)
 * September 20 – George Bethune English, adventurer, marine and diplomat (born 1797)
 * December 22 – Rachel Jackson, wife of Andrew Jackson (born 1767)
 * Full date unknown – William Lee, personal servant and slave of George Washington (born 1750)