Executive Orders: Washington – Obama
President Term Total Orders1
Average / Year Years in Office EO Number Range George Washington Total 8 1.02 7.85 unnumbered John Adams Total 1 0.25 4.00 unnumbered Thomas Jefferson Total 4 0.50 8.00 unnumbered James Madison Total 1 0.13 8.00 unnumbered James Monroe Total 1 0.13 8.00 unnumbered John Quincy Adams Total 3 0.75 4.00 unnumbered Andrew Jackson Total 12 1.50 8.00 unnumbered Martin van Buren Total 10 2.50 4.00 unnumbered William Henry Harrison Total 0 0 0.08 unnumbered John Tyler Total 17 4.34 3.92 unnumbered James K. Polk Total 18 4.50 4.00 unnumbered Zachary Taylor Total 5 3.70 1.35 unnumbered Millard Fillmore Total 12 4.53 2.65 unnumbered Franklin Pierce Total 35 8.75 4.00 unnumbered James Buchanan Total 16 4.00 4.00 unnumbered Abraham Lincoln Total 48 11.65 4.12 unnumbered Andrew Johnson Total 79 20.31 3.89 unnumbered Ulysses S. Grant Total 217 27.13 8.00 unnumbered Rutherford B. Hayes Total 92 23.00 4.00 unnumbered James Garfield Total 6 10.91 0.55 unnumbered Chester Arthur Total 96 27.75 3.46 unnumbered Grover Cleveland – I Total 113 28.25 4.00 unnumbered Benjamin Harrison Total 143 35.75 4.00 unnumbered Grover Cleveland – II Total 140 35.00 4.00 unnumbered William McKinley Total 185 40.84 4.53 unnumbered Theodore Roosevelt Total 1,081 144.71 7.47 William Howard Taft Total 724 181.00 4.00 Woodrow Wilson Total 1,803 225.38 8.00 Warren G. Harding Total 522 216.60 2.41 Calvin Coolidge Total 1,203 215.21 5.59 Herbert Hoover Total 968 242.00 4.00 5075 – 6070 Franklin D. Roosevelt Total 3,522 290.59 12.12 6071 – 9537 Harry S. Truman Total 907 116.58 7.78 9538 – 10431 I 504 133.33 3.78 9538 – 10029 II 403 100.75 4.00 10030 – 10431 Dwight D. Eisenhower Total 484 60.50 8.00 10432 – 10913 I 266 66.50 4.00 10432 – 10695-A II 218 54.50 4.00 10696 – 10913 John F. Kennedy Total 214 75.35 2.84 10914 – 11127 Lyndon B. Johnson Total 325 62.86 5.17 11128 – 11451 Richard Nixon Total 346 62.34 5.55 11452 – 11797 I 247 61.75 4.00 11452 – 11698 II 99 63.87 1.55 11699 – 11797 Gerald R. Ford Total 169 68.98 2.45 11798 – 11966 Jimmy Carter Total 320 80.00 4.00 11967 – 12286 Ronald Reagan Total 381 47.63 8.00 12287 – 12667 I 213 53.25 4.00 12287 – 12499 II 168 42.00 4.00 12500 – 12667 George Bush Total 166 41.50 4.00 12668 – 12833 William J. Clinton Total 364 45.50 8.00 12834 – 13197 I 200 50.00 4.00 12834 – 13033 II 164 41.00 4.00 13034 – 13197 George W. Bush Total 291 36.38 8.00 13198 – 13488 I 173 43.25 4.00 13198 – 13370 II 118 29.50 4.00 13371 – 13488 Barack Obama Total 193 33.10 5.83 13489 – 13681 I 147 36.75 4.00 13489 – 13635 II 46 25.14 1.83 13636 – 13681 Note: Obama EO counts are updated monthly following the 20th day of the month to recompute average per year. Orders issued between updates can be accessed here:
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/executive_orders.php?year=2014
Last Update: Data Through November 20, 2014. (through 5.83 years of the Obama Administration)
Citation: Gerhard Peters. “Executive Orders.” The American Presidency Project. Ed. John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters. Santa Barbara, CA. 1999-2014. Available from the World Wide Web: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php.
Notes:
1 1789 to 1945 (Roosevelt) data includes “numbered” and “unnumbered” executive orders. 1945 (Truman) & 1967 (Johnson) data includes only numbered executive orders including those with letter designations (ex. Executive Order 9577-A).Data Sources:
• 1789 – 1945 (Roosevelt) data obtained from Lyn Ragsdale, “Vital Statisitcs on the Presidency: Washington to Clinton.” rev. ed. (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1998).
• 1945 (Truman) – present data compiled by Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project, from documents contained in the Federal Register.”
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