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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 [18] President Andrew Johnson pardoned, commuted or rescinded the convictions of 654 people.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:
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 ...
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.
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 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 ...
The President of the United States has the authority to grant clemency and pardons to people convicted of criminal offenses, usually in the form of a commuted sentence. Also see: Category:Recipients of American presidential pardons. The difference between clemency and pardons is that a pardon means erasure of the crime the person was convicted ...
Biden announces commutations, pardons: President Joe Biden commutes nearly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people A commutation of sentence and pardon are different forms of executive clemency ...
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)