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Federalist president John Adams pardoned, commuted or rescinded the convictions of 20 people. [3] Among them are: David Bradford, for his role in the Whiskey Rebellion; John Fries, for his role in Fries's Rebellion; convicted of treason due to opposition to a tax; Fries and others were pardoned, and a general amnesty was issued for everyone involved in 1800.
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President Biden announced Thursday that he is commuting sentences for roughly 1,500 people and is pardoning 39 others in what the White House called the “largest single-day act of clemency in ...
Here’s a look back at some of the presidential pardons given by a sitting U.S. president to his own family. President Joe Biden is seen with his son, Hunter Biden, in Nantucket, Massachusetts ...
President Jimmy Carter set a high-water mark for one-term presidents in the past 50 years with 534 individual pardons, plus an unspecified number of Vietnam draft dodgers from 1964 to 1973.
People pardoned by Barack Obama (5 P) P. People pardoned by James K. Polk (1 P) R. People pardoned by Ronald Reagan (7 P) People pardoned by Franklin D. Roosevelt (5 P)
Former President Bill Clinton on his last day in office on Jan. 20, 2001, pardoned his half-brother Roger Clinton, who spent one year in prison on drug charges, according to the Washington Post.
The last-minute pardons come on the heels of another set that Biden issued early Monday morning for high-profile figures whom President Donald Trump has publicly spoken out against.