1828

Events from the year **1828 in the United States**.

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 (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of New York: DeWitt Clinton (Democratic-Republican) (until February 11), Nathaniel Pitcher (Democratic-Republican) (starting February 11)
* 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: 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.
* August 11 – the Working Men's Party is founded in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the 1st 'worker oriented' political party in the USA.
* 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 titled South Carolina Exposition and Protest is presented to the South Carolina House of Representatives protesting the Tariff of Abominations.

## Memoriam

* February 11 – DeWitt Clinton, 6th Governor of New York, U.S. Senator from New York from 1802 to 1803 (aged 58; Albany, NY, USA)
* March 7 – Richard Stockton, U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1796 to 1799 (aged 63; Princeton, NJ, USA)
* March 25 – Maria Reynolds, mistress of Alexander Hamilton (aged 59; New York City, NY, USA)
* June 1 – Lyncoya Jackson, 2nd adopted son of Andrew Jackson (aged 17; Davidson County, TN, USA)
* June 6 – John Kinzie, Fur trader responsible for "the first murder in Chicago", when he killed Jean La Lime in 1812 (aged 64; Chicago, IL, USA)
* July 9 – Gilbert Stuart, painter (aged 72; Boston, MA, USA)
* September 20 – George Bethune English, adventurer, marine and diplomat (aged 41; Washington, DC, USA)
* December 12 – William Lee, personal servant and slave of George Washington (aged 78; Hartford, CT, USA)
* December 22 – Rachel Jackson, wife of Andrew Jackson (aged 61; Davidson County, TN, USA)