Presidential Pardons List (Pardons ONLY)
by Zoinkies Staff
A pardon means an executive order vacating a conviction
George Washington
* Tom the Tinker - Leadership of the Whiskey Rebellion - the first pardons granted by a President
Andrew Jackson
* George Wilson - convicted of robbing the United States mails. Strangely, Wilson refused to accept the pardon. The case went before the Supreme Court, in which the court stated: "A pardon is a deed, to the validity of which delivery is essential, and delivery is not complete without acceptance. It may then be rejected by the person to whom it is tendered; and if it is rejected, we have discovered no power in this court to force it upon him." As such, Wilson was not released from prison early.
James K. Polk
* John C. Frémont - convicted by court martial of mutiny. Frémont later became the 1856 Republican candidate for the Presidency of the United States.
James Buchanan
* Brigham Young - pardoned for role in the Utah War
Andrew Johnson
His pardons were rather interesting ones:
* Confederate soldiers - unconditional amnesty to all Confederates on Christmas Day 1868; earlier amnesties requiring signed oaths and excluding certain classes of people were issued both by Lincoln and by Johnson.
* Dr. Samuel Mudd - charged with conspiring to murder Lincoln
* Edmund Spangler - charged with conspiring to murder Lincoln
* Samuel Arnold - charged with conspiring to murder Lincoln
Grover Cleveland
* David King Udall - convicted on perjury charges; spent 3 months in a Federal Prison; received a full and unconditional pardon
Richard Nixon
Only pardoned one person, Angelo DeCarlo who had been convicted of extortion; served 1 1/2 years and he was pardoned due to poor health.
Gerald Ford
Pardoned only 3 people and they were three famous people:
* Richard Nixon - full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he may have committed against the United States while President
* Robert E. Lee - full rights of citizenship were posthumously restored
* Iva Toguri D'Aquino - "Tokyo Rose" - only U.S. citizen convicted of treason to be pardoned
Jimmy Carter
pardoned 6 people and you will probably recognize their names:
* Oscar Collazo - Attempted assassination on President Harry S. Truman
* G. Gordon Liddy - sentence commuted
* Peter Yarrow - Singer-songwriter
* Vietnam draft dodgers - amnesty issued in the form of a pardon
* Jefferson Davis - President of the Confederate States of America.
* Patty Hearst - Convicted of Bank Robbery; sentence commuted
Ronald Reagan
Pardoned 3 people and only 1 name will probably be recognizable:
* George Steinbrenner - Nixon campaign contribution
George H. W. Bush
Pardoned about 75 people.
Bill Clinton
Pardoned 149 people.
George W. Bush
Pardoned about 16 people.
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