 PRESIDENTIAL
PARDONS |
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Presidential Clemency Actions, 1789-2001
"Clemency actions" include pardons, conditional pardons, commutations of sentence, remissions, etc. For details of particular pardons, see Notable Pardons; for more information on pardons law and process, see JURIST's Presidential Pardons home page.
| BY DATE |
| George Washington | 16 |
| John Adams | 21 |
| Thomas Jefferson | 119 |
| James Madison | 196 |
| James Monroe | 419 |
| John Quincy Adams | 183 |
| Andrew Jackson | 386 |
| Martin Van Buren | 168 |
| William H. Harrison | 0 |
| John Tyler | 209 |
| James K. Polk | 268 |
| Zachary Taylor | 38 |
| Millard Fillmore | 170 |
| Franklin Pierce | 142 |
| James Buchanan | 150 |
| Abraham Lincoln | 343 |
| Andrew Johnson | 654 |
| Ulysses S. Grant | 1332 |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | 893 |
| James Garfield | 0 |
| Chester Arthur | 337 |
| Grover Cleveland * | 1107 |
| Benjamin Harrison | 613 |
| William McKinley * | 918 |
| Theodore Roosevelt * | 981 |
| William H. Taft | 758 |
| Woodrow Wilson | 2480 |
| Warren G. Harding | 800 |
| Calvin Coolidge | 1545 |
| Herbert Hoover | 1385 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 3687 |
| Harry S. Truman | 2044 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1157 |
| John F. Kennedy | 575 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | 1187 |
| Richard Nixon | 926 |
| Gerald Ford | 409 |
| Jimmy Carter | 566 |
| Ronald Reagan | 406 |
| George Bush | 77 |
| Bill Clinton | 456 |
| BY NUMBER |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 3687 |
| Woodrow Wilson | 2480 |
| Harry S. Truman | 2044 |
| Calvin Coolidge | 1545 |
| Herbert Hoover | 1385 |
| Ulysses S. Grant | 1332 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | 1187 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1157 |
| Grover Cleveland * | 1107 |
| Theodore Roosevelt * | 981 |
| Richard Nixon | 926 |
| William McKinley * | 918 |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | 893 |
| Warren G. Harding | 800 |
| William H. Taft | 758 |
| Andrew Johnson | 654 |
| Benjamin Harrison | 613 |
| John F. Kennedy | 575 |
| Jimmy Carter | 566 |
| Bill Clinton | 456 |
| James Monroe | 419 |
| Gerald Ford | 409 |
| Ronald Reagan | 406 |
| Andrew Jackson | 386 |
| Abraham Lincoln | 343 |
| Chester Arthur | 337 |
| James K. Polk | 268 |
| John Tyler | 209 |
| James Madison | 196 |
| John Quincy Adams | 183 |
| Millard Fillmore | 170 |
| Martin Van Buren | 168 |
| James Buchanan | 150 |
| Franklin Pierce | 142 |
| Thomas Jefferson | 119 |
| George Bush | 77 |
| Zachary Taylor | 38 |
| John Adams | 21 |
| George Washington | 16 |
| James Garfield | 0 |
| William H Harrison | 0 |
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* estimates
SOURCES: P.S. Ruckman Jr., Federal Executive Clemency in the United States, 1995; Los Angeles Times, January 29, 2001
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