Vetoes & Overrides

Franklin D. Roosevelt vetoed the most bills from Congress with 635.
Andrew Johnson had the most vetoes overridden by Congress with 15.
Franklin Pierce had the highest percentage of his vetoes overridden by Congress at 56% (5 out of 9).
John Tyler was the first president to have a veto overridden.
William McKinley had the most vetoes without an override with 42.
Grover Cleveland had the most vetoes in one complete term with 414 in his first term.
Seven presidents had not vetoed a bill. Only one, Thomas Jefferson, did so over two complete terms.

Rank	#	President	Vetoes	Vetoes Overridden
1	32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	635	9
2	22 & 24	Grover Cleveland	584	7
3	33	Harry S. Truman	250	12
4	34	Dwight D. Eisenhower	181	2
5	18	Ulysses S. Grant	93	4
6	40	Ronald Reagan	78	9
7	26	Theodore Roosevelt	71	1
8	38	Gerald R. Ford	66	12
9	30	Calvin Coolidge	50	4
10	23	Benjamin Harrison	44	1
10	28	Woodrow Wilson	44	6
10	41	George H. W. Bush	44	1
13	37	Richard M. Nixon	43	7
14	25	William McKinley	42	0
15	27	William H. Taft	39	1
16	31	Herbert Hoover	37	3
16	42	Bill Clinton	37	2
18	39	Jimmy Carter	31	2
19	36	Lyndon B. Johnson	30	0
20	17	Andrew Johnson	29	15
21	35	John F. Kennedy	21	0
22	19	Rutherford B. Hayes	13	1
23	7	Andrew Jackson	12	0
23	21	Chester A. Arthur	12	1
23	43	George W. Bush	12	4
23	44	Barack Obama	12	1
27	10	John Tyler	10	1
28	14	Franklin Pierce	9	5
28	45	Donald J. Trump	9	1
30	4	James Madison	7	0
30	15	James Buchanan	7	0
30	16	Abraham Lincoln	7	0
33	29	Warren G. Harding	6	0
34	11	James K. Polk	3	0
35	1	George Washington	2	0
35	46	Joe Biden	2	0
37	5	James Monroe	1	0
37	8	Martin Van Buren	1	0
39	2	John Adams	0	0
39	3	Thomas Jefferson	0	0
39	6	John Quincy Adams	0	0
39	9	William Henry Harrison	0	0
39	12	Zachary Taylor	0	0
39	13	Millard Fillmore	0	0
39	20	James A. Garfield	0	0

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