The first transplant involved a kidney and took place in the country in 1954.
Today, more people than ever in the US are getting new organs and the latest statistics indicate that more than 400,000 people in the country are living with functioning transplanted organs.
Last year alone the US recorded a record 41,356 transplants.
In the light of an increasing demand for transplants a new campaign has been launched to speed up the next million transplants by encouraging more people to register as organ donors.
Campaigners have said that for all the lives saved more than 105,000 people are on waiting lists for transplants and around 17 people die waiting every day.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has created a blueprint which has has set a five-year deadline for improving the complex transplant system.
The National Academies has found that often potentially usable organs are not being recovered from would-be donors and that hospitals are declining organs which are not perfect but may still provide the patient with a good outcome.
An investigation by the Senate Finance Committee also revealed that testing failures between 2008 and 2015 resulted in 249 recipients developed diseases from donated organs and 70 of them died.
They also found cases of organs being lost or delayed when they were transported between different hospitals.
