President Tenure Pardons or Clemency Notes
George Washington 1789–1797 16
John Adams 1797–1801 20
Thomas Jefferson 1801–1809 119
James Madison 1809–1817 196
James Monroe 1817–1825 419
John Quincy Adams 1825–1829 183
Andrew Jackson 1829–1837 386
Martin Van Buren 1837–1841 168
William Henry Harrison 1841 0
John Tyler 1841–1845 209
James K. Polk 1845–1849 268
Zachary Taylor 1849–1850 38
Millard Fillmore 1850–1853 170
Franklin Pierce 1853–1857 142
James Buchanan 1857–1861 150
Abraham Lincoln 1861–1865 343
Andrew Johnson 1865–1869 7654 Includes thousands of pardons for ex-Confederates
Ulysses S. Grant 1869–1877 1332
Rutherford B. Hayes 1877–1881 893
James A. Garfield 1881. 0
Chester A. Arthur 1881–1885 337
Grover Cleveland 1885–1889,
1893–1897 1107 Estimate
Benjamin Harrison 1889–1893 613
William McKinley 1897–1901 918 Estimate
Theodore Roosevelt 1901–1909 981 Estimate
William Howard Taft 1909–1913 758
Woodrow Wilson 1913–1921 2480
Warren G. Harding 1921–1923 800
Calvin Coolidge 1923–1929 1545
Herbert Hoover 1929–1933 1385
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933–1945 3687
Harry S. Truman 1945–1953 2044
Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953–1961 1157
John F. Kennedy 1961–1963 575
Lyndon B. Johnson 1963–1969 1187
Richard Nixon 1969–1974 926
Gerald Ford 1974–1977 409 Pardoned Richard Nixon in September 1974
Jimmy Carter 1977–1981 566 Excludes over 200,000 pardoned for Vietnam draft evasion
Ronald Reagan 1981–1989 406
George H. W. Bush 1989–1993 77
Bill Clinton 1993–2001 459
George W. Bush 2001–2009 200
Barack Obama 2009–2017 1927
Donald Trump 2017–2021,
2025–present 1700 Includes approximately 1500 pardoned for January 6 attacks
Joe Biden 2021–2025 8,064 Includes 6500 possibly pardoned for marijuana possession