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U.S. Presidential Pardons

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_pardons_in_the_United_States

List of people pardoned or granted clemency by the president of the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_or_granted_cl...

List of U.S.Presidents:

1) George Washington Who Pardoned:

2) John Adams Who Pardoned:

David Bradfordhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bradford_(lawyer) for The Whiskey Rebellion.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion

John Fries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fries for Fries' Rebellionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fries%27s_Rebellion

3) Thomas Jefferson Who Pardoned:

4) James Madison Who Pardoned:

Jean Lafitte For his help in The War of 1812 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lafitte

Pierre Lafitte Help in The War of 1812 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Lafitte

Brig. General William Hull for His surrender of Fort Detroit.

5) James Monroe Who Pardoned:

6)John Quincy Adams Who Pardoned:

7) Andrew Jackson Who Pardoned:

8)Martin Van Buren Who Pardoned:

William Lyon Mackenziehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyon_Mackenzie

9)William Henry Harrison Who Pardoned: One of two presidents who did not issue pardons.

10)John Tyler Who Pardoned

11) James K. Polk Who Pardoned:

John C. Frémont--convicted by court martial of mutiny in 1848. Maj. Gen. John Charles Frémont, "The Pathfinder" (USA)

12)Zachary Taylor Who Pardoned:

13)Millard Fillmore Who Pardoned:

Daniel Drayton for the Pearl Incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_incident

14)Franklin Pierce Who Pardoned:

15)James Buchanan Who Pardoned:

Brigham Young for The Utah War

16) Abraham Lincoln Who Pardoned:

Moses Johnson Robinette - ancestor of the 46th president Joe Biden

17) Andrew Johnson Who Pardoned:

Commander (CSN) Thomas William Brent (1808-1875) Pardoned by 17th President Andrew Johnson https://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/glc0307901 Pardoned for his involvement in the U.S.Civil War.

Dr.Samuel Mudd. Wrongfully imprisoned for helping John Wilkes Booth set his ankle after the Assassination of Lincoln. HTTPs://www.geni.com/people/Dr-Samuel-Mudd/6000000011972771281

Brig. Gen. Gideon Johnson Pillow, Jr. (CSA) for his involvement in the War Brig. Gen. Gideon Johnson Pillow, Jr. (CSA)

Walter Preston. Pardoned for his involvement in the U.S. Civil War.Walter Preston

James Alexander Seddon, 4th CSA Sec. of War: Pardoned for involvement of U.S.Civil War. James Alexander Seddon, 4th CSA Sec. of War

Alexander H. Stephens. Vice President of CSA. Pardoned for his involvement in the U.S.Civil War. Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the CSA

George Alfred deSepos Trenholm. Treasurer of CSA and Pardoned for his involvement in the US.Civil War. George Alfred deSepos Trenholm

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18)Ulysses S. Grant Who Pardoned:

Amnesty Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_Act

19)Rutherford B. Hayes Who Pardoned:

20)James A. Garfield One of two presidents who did not issue pardons.

21)Chester A. Arthur Who Pardoned:

22)Grover Cleveland Who Pardoned:

23) Benjamin Harrison Who Pardoned:

24)Grover Cleveland Who Pardoned:

25) William McKinley Who Pardoned:

26)Theodore Roosevelt Who Pardoned:

27)William Howard Taft Who Pardoned:

28)Woodrow Wilson Who Pardoned:

29)Warren G. Harding Who Pardoned:

30)Calvin Coolidge: Who Pardoned:

31)Herbert Hoover: Who Pardoned:

32)Franklin D. Roosevelt Who Pardoned:

33) Harry S Truman: Who Pardoned:

34)Dwight D. Eisenhower Who Pardoned:

35) John F. Kennedy Who Pardoned:

36) Lyndon B. Johnson Who Pardoned:

37) Richard M. Nixon Who Pardoned:

38) Gerald Ford Who Pardoned:

Richard M. Nixon for Watergate.

39) Jimmy Carter Who Pardoned:

Patty Hearst (profile: Patricia Campbell Shaw) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Hearst

40) Ronald Reagan Who Pardoned:

George Steinbrenner (profile: George Michael Steinbrenner, III} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Steinbrenner

41) George H.W.Bush Who Pardoned:

42) William Clinton: Who Pardoned:

Roger Clinton Jr. (profile: Private) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Clinton_Jr.

43) George Bush Who Pardoned:

44)Barack Obama Who Pardoned:

45) Donald Trump Who Pardoned

46) Joe Biden Who Pardoned: