List of United States federal executive orders

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The following is an incomplete list of United States federal executive orders.
At the federal level of government in the United States, laws are made almost exclusively by legislation. Such legislation originates as an Act of Congress passed by the Congress of the United States (and its predecessor, the Continental Congress); such acts were either signed into law by the President or passed by Congress after a presidential veto.
However, legislation is not the only source of regulations which have the force of law. There is also judge-made common law and constitutional law. The President can issue executive orders pursuant to a grant of discretion from Congress, or under the inherent powers that office holds to deal with certain matters of foreign policy.
Many early executive orders were not recorded. The State Department began numbering executive orders in the early 20th century, starting retroactively from President Abraham Lincoln's Executive Order Establishing a Provisional Court in Louisiana issued in 1862.

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Consolidated list of Presidents and Order numbers[edit]

President	Total Orders	Order Number Range
George Washington	8	unnumbered
John Adams	1	unnumbered
Thomas Jefferson	4	unnumbered
James Madison	1	unnumbered
James Monroe	1	unnumbered
John Quincy Adams	3	unnumbered
Andrew Jackson	12	unnumbered
Martin van Buren	10	unnumbered
William Henry Harrison	0	unnumbered
John Tyler	17	unnumbered
James K. Polk	18	unnumbered
Zachary Taylor	5	unnumbered
Millard Fillmore	12	unnumbered
Franklin Pierce	35	unnumbered
James Buchanan	16	unnumbered
Abraham Lincoln	48	unnumbered
Andrew Johnson	79	unnumbered
Ulysses S. Grant	217	unnumbered
Rutherford B. Hayes	92	unnumbered
James Garfield	6	unnumbered
Chester Arthur	96	unnumbered
Grover Cleveland - I	113	unnumbered
Benjamin Harrison	143	unnumbered
Grover Cleveland - II	140	unnumbered
William McKinley	185	unnumbered
Theodore Roosevelt	1,081
William Howard Taft	724
Woodrow Wilson	1,803
Warren G. Harding	522
Calvin Coolidge	1,203
Herbert Hoover	968	5075 - 6070
Franklin D. Roosevelt	3,522	6071 - 9537
Harry S. Truman	907	9538 - 10431
Dwight D. Eisenhower	484	10432 - 10913
John F. Kennedy	214	10914 - 11127
Lyndon B. Johnson	325	11128 - 11451
Richard Nixon	346	11452 - 11797
Gerald R. Ford	169	11798 - 11966
Jimmy Carter	320	11967 - 12286
Ronald Reagan	381	12287 - 12667
George H. W. Bush	166	12668 - 12833
William J. Clinton	364	12834 - 13197
George W. Bush	291	13198 - 13488
Barack Obama	178	13489 - 13666...

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1800s[edit]

1836: Specie Circular - Required payment for public lands be in gold and silver specie
1872: The Colville Indian Reservation is created. April 9, 1872

1900–1929[edit]

1901–1909: Executive Orders by President Theodore Roosevelt: Complete List of Executive Orders by President Theodore Roosevelt^[3]

1914: Executive Order 1888: Providing conditions of employment for the Permanent Force for the Panama Canal^[4]

1918: Executive Order 2859: National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences^[5]

1927: Executive Order 4601: Authorization of the Distinguished Flying Cross ^[6]

Herbert Hoover (1929–1933)[edit]

EOs 5075–6070 ^[7]

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945)[edit]

Administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[8]
Executive Orders 6071–9537

Year	First	Last	Total
1933	6071	6545	573
1934	6546	6935	474
1935	6936	7261	394
1936	7262	7531	274
1937	7532	7784	253
1938	7784-A	8030	247
1939	8031	8316	287
1940	8317	8624	309
1941	8625	9005	383
1942	9006	9292	289
1943	9293	9412	122
1944	9413	9508	100
1945	9509	9537	29
Total	6071	9537	3,522

Harry S Truman (1945–1953)[edit]

Administration of Harry S Truman Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[9]
Executive Orders 9538–10431

Year	First	Last	Total
1945	9538	9672	139
1946	9673	9817	148
1947	9818	9918	100
1948	9919	10025	117
1949	10026	10094	69
1950	10095	10199	95
1951	10200	10317	118
1952	10318	10420	104
1953	10421	10431	11
Total	9538	10431	907

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961)[edit]

Administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[10]
EOs 10432–10913

1953: Executive Order 10450: Charged the heads of federal agencies and the Office of Personnel Management, supported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), with investigating federal employees to determine whether they posed security risks.
1954: Executive Order 10555: Establishing a Seal for the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped

1959: Executive Order 10834: Defined the design of the flag of the United States^[11]

U.S. flag design as defined by Executive Order 10834.

Executive Orders 10432–10913

Year	First	Last	Total
1953	10432	10511	80
1954	10512	10584	75
1955	10585	10649	66
1956	10650	10693	44
1957	10694	10747	55
1958	10748	10797	50
1959	10798	10857	60
1960	10858	10899	42
1961	10900	10913	14
Total	10432	10913	484

John F. Kennedy (1961–1963)[edit]

Administration of John F. Kennedy Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[12]

1961: Executive Order 10925: Required government contractors to "take affirmative action" to ensure non-discriminatory employment practices. Created the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission

Executive Order 10924	Establishment of the Peace Corps Menu 0:00 John F. Kennedy's announcement of the establishment of the Peace Corps
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1962: Executive Order 10988 recognizes the right of federal workers to join employee organizations and bargain collectively
1962: Executive Order 10990 reestablished the Federal Safety Council
1962: Executive Order 11051 was revoked by Executive Order 12148: Specifies the duties and responsibilities of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put ALL executive orders into effect in times deemed to be of increased international tension, economic crisis, and/or financial crisis
1963: Executive Order 11110: Delegating the authority to issue silver certificates under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of May 12, 1933 to the Secretary of the Treasury

Executive Orders 10914–11127

Year	First	Last	Total
1961	10914	10983	70
1962	10984	11072	89
1963	11073	11127	55
Total	10914	11127	214

Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–1969)[edit]

Administration of Lyndon B. Johnson Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[13]
EOs 11128–11451

1963: Executive Order 11129: Decreed on November 29, 1963 that the NASA Launch Operations Center (LOC), including facilities on Merritt Island and Cape Canaveral, would be renamed the John F. Kennedy Space Center, NASA. That name change officially took effect on December 20, 1963
1964: Executive Order 11130: Created Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of president Kennedy
1965: Executive Order 11246: Prohibited discrimination in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
1966: Executive Order 11310: Assigned Emergency Preparedness Functions to the Attorney General

Richard Nixon (1969–1974)[edit]

Administration of Richard Nixon Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[14]
EOs 11452–11797

1969: Executive Order 11478: Prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, handicap, or age in the competitive service of the federal civilian workforce, which includes civilians employed by the armed forces and by federal contractors and contractors performing under federally assisted construction contracts.^[15] Some categories were added by Executive Order 13087 in 1998 and Executive Order 13152 in 2000.

Gerald R. Ford (1974–1977)[edit]

EOs 11798–11966

1975: Executive Order 11850: Renunciation of certain uses in war of chemical herbicides and riot control agents.

1976: Executive Order 11905: Outlawed the use of political assassination.^[16]

1976: Executive Order 11921: Allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production, distribution, energy sources, wages, salaries, credit, and the flow of money.

Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)[edit]

Administration of Jimmy Carter Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[17]
EOs 11967–12286

1978: Executive Order 12036: Reformed the Intelligence Community and further banned assassination.
1979: Executive Order 12148: Established the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
1979: Executive Order 12170: Allows the freezing of all Iranian assets held within the United States

Ronald Reagan (1981–1989)[edit]

Administration of Ronald Reagan Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[18] EOs 12287–12667

1981: Executive Order 12333: Strengthened management of the United States Intelligence Community
1982: Executive Order 12372: Intergovernmental Review of federal programs
1987: Executive Order 12601: President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic
1988: Executive Order 12656: Assignment of Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities
1988: Executive Order 12631: Working Group on Financial Markets
1989: Executive Order 12667: Establishes procedure for access to Presidential Records. (Revoked by Executive Order 13233, November 1, 2001. Restored by Barack Obama on January 21, 2009.)

George H.W. Bush (1989–1993)[edit]

Administration of George Bush Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[19]
Executive Orders 12668–12833

Year	First	Last	Total
1989	12668	12698	31
1990	12699	12741	43
1991	12742	12787	46
1992	12788	12827	40
1993	12828	12833	6
Total	12668	12833	166

Bill Clinton (1993–2001)[edit]

Administration of William J. Clinton Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[20]
Executive Orders 12834–13197

Year	First	Last	Total
1993	12834	12890	57
1994	12891	12944	54
1995	12945	12984	40
1996	12985	13033	49
1997	13034	13071	38
1998	13072	13109	38
1999	13110	13144	35
2000	13145	13185	41
2001	13186	13197	12
Total	12834	13197	364

George W. Bush (2001–2009)[edit]

Administration of George W. Bush Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[21]
Executive Orders 13198–13488

Year	First	Last	Total
2001	13198	13251	54
2002	13252	13282	31
2003	13283	13323	41
2004	13324	13368	45
2005	13369	13394	26
2006	13395	13421	27
2007	13422	13453	32
2008	13454	13483	30
2009	13484	13488	5
Total	13198	13488	291

Barack Obama (2009–present)[edit]

Administration of Barack Obama Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[22]
Executive Orders 13489 and above

Year	First	Last	Total
2009	13489	13527	39
2010	13528	13562	35
2011	13563	13596	34
2012	13597	13635	39
2013	13636	13655	20
2014	13656	13666	11
Total	13489	13666	178