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List of events
Events from the year 1828 in the United States.
July 4: Construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad begins
December 3: Jackson defeats President John Quincy Adams
- 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
- 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)
- 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)