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"President Andrew Johnson Pardoning Rebels at the White House", Harper's Weekly, October 14, 1865. Those excluded from general amnesty had the option of applying to the president for a special pardon, and much of Johnson's time was spent in granting those pardons. The following oath was required under Johnson's 1865 proclamation:
Democratic president Andrew Johnson pardoned about 7,000 people in the "over $20,000" class (taxable property over $20,000) by May 4, 1866. More than 600 prominent North Carolinians were pardoned just before the election of 1864. [18] President Andrew Johnson pardoned, commuted or rescinded the convictions of 654 people. [3] Among them are:
Pages in category "People pardoned by Andrew Johnson" ... Jefferson Davis; Thomas Pleasant Dockery; E. Jubal Early; Pardons for ex-Confederates; F. James Fleming Fagan;
Abraham Lincoln used clemency during the U.S. Civil War to encourage desertions from the Confederate Army; in 1868, his successor, Andrew Johnson, pardoned Jefferson Davis, the former president of the Confederacy, which was perhaps the most controversial pardon up to that point. [2]
Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War .
When reporters asked Mike Johnson to respond to President Donald Trump’s pardons for more than 1,000 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, the House speaker had a ...
Aaron Johnson, a Harrisburg man sentenced to 11 years in prison for committing four armed bank robberies; Matthew Kolodesh, a Bucks County hospice owner accused of defrauding Medicare out of more ...
After the Civil War, he was imprisoned at Fort Pulaski for nine months for aiding the escape of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. [7] After being pardoned by President Andrew Johnson, he returned to his Florida railroad interests and other business ventures. [8] In 2000 he was recognized as a "Great Floridian" by the state.