Presidential Election of 1828: A Resource Guide

Genl. Andrew Jackson, 1828. Protector & defender of beauty & booty, Orleans / painted by J[oseph] Wood ; engraved on steel by C.G. Childs, Philadelphia. [Philadelphia: C.G. Childs, 1828] 1 print on wove paper: engraving with stipple; plate 22.5 x 16.4 cm. Prints & Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ds-00682

The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material associated with the presidential election of 1828, including manuscripts, broadsides and government documents. This guide compiles links to digital materials related to the presidential election of 1828 that are available throughout the Library of Congress Web site. In addition, it provides links to external Web sites focusing on the 1828 election and a selected bibliography.

1828 Presidential Election Results [1]

Library of Congress Web Site | External Web Sites | Selected Bibliography

American Memory Historical Collections

An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera

The Printed Ephemera collection comprises 28,000 primary-source items dating from the seventeenth century to the present and encompasses key events and eras in American history. While the broadside format represents the bulk of the collection, there are a significant number of leaflets and some pamphlets.

• Address of the General Committee of Republican young men of the City of New York, friendly to the election of Andrew Jackson ... [New York 1828]
• [Cut of broom] To sweep the Augean Stable. For President Andrew Jackson for Vice-President John C. Calhoun. [16 names of candidates] [1828]
• In honor of the election of our distinguished fellow-citizen General Andrew Jackson, to the presidency of the United States, you are respectfully invited to attend a ball in Nashville ... Nashville, December 10, 1828
• Jackson and the people's ticket [1828]
• Jackson delegate ticket .... [1828?]
• Jackson Ticket. Andrew Jackson. President John C. Calhoun, Vice President [24 candidates] [Virginia 1828]
• Supplemental account of some of the bloody deeds of General Jackson, being a supplement to the "Coffin handbill." [Cuts of 6 coffins] ... John Taliaferro. Member of Congress from Northern Neck, Va. [1828]

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875

This collection consists of published congressional records of the United States of America from 1774 to 1875.

• On February 11, 1829, the Electoral College votes for the presidential election of 1828 were counted by a joint session of Congress and reported in the Register of Debates and the House Journal.

The James Madison Papers, 1723 - 1836

The James Madison Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consist of approximately 12,000 items captured in some 72,000 digital images.

• James Madison to Marquis de Lafayette, February 20, 1828, "I can only say that the Party for Genl. Jackson are quite confident, and that for Mr. Adams, apparently with but faint hopes."
  

Prints & Photographs Division

Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC)

Search PPOC to find prints and photographs related to the 1828 presidential election.

A selection of images from the 1828 presidential election includes:

• Genl. Andrew Jackson, 1828. Protector & defender of beauty & booty, Orleans
• Jackson delegate ticket. No "favored few, booted and spurred, ready to ride us legitimately by the grace of God"
• Jackson ticket. Agriculture, commerce and manufactures
• Jackson ticket. "Firm united let us be, rallying round our Hickory tree"
• Jackson ticket. Honor and gratitude to the man who has filled the measure of his country's glory--Jefferson
• Jackson ticket. Internal improvement by rail roads, canals, & c.
• Jackson ticket. American system. Speed the plough, the loom & the mattock
• The pedlar and his pack or The desperate effort, an over balance

External Web Sites

The 1828 Election: Mudslinging & Party Politics

The North Carolina State Archives Web site contains excerpts from newspaper articles that discuss the 1828 presidential election.

The American Presidency Project: Election of 1828

The American Presidency Project Web site presents election results from the 1828 presidential election.

Selected Bibliography

Primary Sources: Campaign Literature

Address of the Administration Standing Committee to Their Fellow-Citizens of Indiana. n. p., 1828. [Catalog Record] [Full Text]

Address to the People of Connecticut. Hartford, Conn.: Printed by J. Russell, 1828. [Catalog Record] [Full Text]

Address to the People of Delaware, on the Approaching Presidential Election. Dover, Del.: J. Robertson, printer, 1828. [Catalog Record] [Full Text]

Address of the Republican Committee of Correspondence of Philadelphia, to the People of the United States. Philadelphia: Printed by W. Stavely, 1828. [Catalog Record] [Full Text]

Address of the Republican General Committee of Young Men of the City and County of New-York, Friendly to the Election of Gen. Andrew Jackson to the Presidency, to the Republican Electors of the State of New-York. New York: A. Ming Jr., printer, 1828. [Catalog Record] [Full Text]

Address of the Republican Young Men of the Town of Galway. Ballston Spa, N.Y.: Printed by J. Comstock, 1828. [Catalog Record] [Full Text]

Essex Jackson Meeting. Haverhill, Mass., 1828. [Catalog Record] [Full Text]

A History of the Life and Public Services of Major General Andrew Jackson. n.p. 1828. [Catalog Record] [Full Text]

Proceedings and Address of the New-Jersey State Convention, Assembled at Trenton, on the Eighth Day of January, 1828, which Nominated Andrew Jackson for President, John C. Calhoun for Vice-President, of the United States. Trenton, N.J.: Printed by J. Justice, 1828. [Catalog Record] [Full Text]

Proceedings of the Anti-Jackson Convention Held at the Capitol in the City of Richmond, with Their Address to the People of Virginia, Accompanied by Documents. Richmond: Franklin Press, 1828. [Catalog Record] [Full Text]

The Striking Similitude between the Reign of Terror of the Elder Adams, and the Reign of Corruption, of the Younger Adams. Albany, N.Y.: Printed for the Albany Argus, by D. M’Glashan, 1828. [Catalog Record] [Full Text]

Truth’s Advocate and Monthly Anti-Jackson Expositor. Cincinnati: Lodge, L’Hommedieu, and Hammond, 1828. [Catalog Record] [Full Text]

United States’ Telegraph--Extra. Washington, D.C.: Green & Jarvis, 1828-29. [Catalog Record] [Full Text]

A Vindication of the Character and Public Services of Andrew Jackson; in Reply to the Richmond Address. Boston: True and Greene, 1828. [Catalog Record] [Full Text]

Child, David L. Political Extracts from a Leading Adams Paper, the Massachusetts Journal. Boston, 1828. [Catalog Record] [Full Text]

Jenkins, William. An Address to the Catholic Voters of Baltimore. Baltimore: Printed by Lucas & Deaver, 1828. [Catalog Record] [Full Text]

-----. Vindication of An address to the Catholic voters of Baltimore. Baltimore: Printed by Lucas & Deaver, 1828. [Catalog Record] [Full Text]

Kane, John Kintzing. A Candid View of the Presidential Question. Philadelphia: Printed by W. Stavely, 1828.[Catalog Record] [Full Text]

Secondary Sources

Cole, Donald B. Vindicating Andrew Jackson: The 1828 Election and the Rise of the Two-Party System. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. [Catalog Record]

Parsons, Lynn H. The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. [Catalog Record]

Remini, Robert V. The Election of Andrew Jackson. Philadelphia: Lippincott 1963. [Catalog Record]

Weston, Florence. The Presidential Election of 1828. 1938; rpt. Philadelphia: Porcupine Press, 1974. [Catalog Record]

Younger Readers

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., ed. The Election of 1828 and the Administration of Andrew Jackson. Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, 2003. [Catalog Record]

Notes

1. Presidential Elections, 1789-2008. (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2010), 126, 216.