Pardons

These counts include all grants of clemency (convictions pardoned, commuted, and rescinded).
Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the most grants of clemency with 3,687.
Herbert Hoover had the most grants of clemency for a one-term president with 1,385.
Neither William Henry Harrison nor James A. Garfield issued a pardon before their death in office.
George Washington issued the fewest grants of clemency for a president who served at least one full term - 16.
In addition the numbers in this table, Andrew Johnson also issued over 7,000 pardons for people who served in the Confederate Army and Jimmy Carter issued over 200,000 pardons for Vietnam War draft dodgers.
Richard M. Nixon is the only president to receive a pardon (from Gerald R. Ford).
* Indicates these are estimated numbers.
+ Incumbent president's numbers last updated 20 Jan 2021.

Rank	#	President	Pardons
1	32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	3,687
2	28	Woodrow Wilson	2,480
3	33	Harry S. Truman	2,044
4	44	Barack Obama	1,927
5	30	Calvin Coolidge	1,545
6	31	Herbert Hoover	1,385
7	18	Ulysses S. Grant	1,332
8	36	Lyndon B. Johnson	1,187
9	34	Dwight D. Eisenhower	1,157
10	22 & 24	Grover Cleveland	1,107 *
11	26	Theodore Roosevelt	981 *
12	37	Richard M. Nixon	926
13	25	William McKinley	918 *
14	19	Rutherford B. Hayes	893
15	29	Warren G. Harding	800
16	27	William H. Taft	758
17	17	Andrew Johnson	654
18	23	Benjamin Harrison	613
19	35	John F. Kennedy	575
20	39	Jimmy Carter	566
21	42	Bill Clinton	459
22	5	James Monroe	419
23	38	Gerald R. Ford	409
24	40	Ronald Reagan	406
25	7	Andrew Jackson	386
26	16	Abraham Lincoln	343
27	21	Chester A. Arthur	337
28	11	James K. Polk	268
29	45	Donald J. Trump	238
30	10	John Tyler	209
31	43	George W. Bush	200
32	4	James Madison	196
33	6	John Quincy Adams	183
34	13	Millard Fillmore	170
35	8	Martin Van Buren	168
36	15	James Buchanan	150
37	14	Franklin Pierce	142
38	3	Thomas Jefferson	119
39	41	George H. W. Bush	77
40	12	Zachary Taylor	38
41	2	John Adams	21
42	1	George Washington	16
43	9	William Henry Harrison	0
43	20	James A. Garfield	0
43	46	Joe Biden	0 +

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