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Federalist president John Adams pardoned, commuted or rescinded the convictions of 20 people.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.
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 Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others in "the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history," the White House announced Thursday.
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.
President Gerald R. Ford's broad federal pardon of former president Richard M. Nixon in 1974 for "all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974" is a notable example of a fixed-period federal pardon that came ...
List of people pardoned by George W. Bush; List of people pardoned by Bill Clinton; Bill Clinton pardon controversy; List of people granted executive clemency by Barack Obama; List of people granted executive clemency by Donald Trump
The 39 people who were pardoned by Biden had been convicted of nonviolent crimes, mostly drug offenses, and have “shown commitment to making their communities stronger and safer," the president ...
The following is a list of the 75 pardons and 3 commutations by President George H. W. Bush. The list is organized by the date on which President George H. W. Bush granted the pardon or commutation. This list is a subset of the list of people pardoned by a United States president.