# 1828 in the United States

Events from the year 1828 in the United States.

## Incumbents
### 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
* Governors and lieutenant governors
* 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)

## 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)