List of United States federal executive orders

This page is a list of Executive orders which have been issued by the Office of the President of the United States of America to give specific presidential policy and implementation directions to officers and agencies of this country's Executive branch. Federal government offices and agencies are required to follow the directions of such Executive orders, within the limits of existing federal laws passed by the United States Congress and defined by the Constitution of the United States, as interpreted by the Judicial branch of the federal government.
At the federal level of government in the United States, laws are made almost exclusively by legislation. Such legislation originates as an act of Congress passed by the U.S. Congress; such acts were either signed into law by the president or passed by Congress after a presidential veto.
Legislation is not the only source of law. There is also judge-made common law and constitutional law. The president can also issue executive orders pursuant to a grant of discretion from Congress, or under the inherent powers that office holds to deal with certain matters which have the force of law.
Many early executive orders were not recorded. The State Department began numbering executive orders in the early 20th century, starting retroactively from President Abraham Lincoln's Executive Order Establishing a Provisional Court in Louisiana issued in 1862.

Consolidated list by president

1800s

1836: Specie Circular – Required payment for public lands be in gold and silver specie, repealed in 1838
1863: Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction – Laid out President Abraham Lincoln's preliminary "10% plan" for reintegrating the "states in rebellion" back into the Union
1872: Colville Indian Reservation is created
Earliest numbered executive orders

The current numbering system for executive orders was established by the U.S. State Department in 1907, when all of the orders in the department's archives were assigned chronological numbers. The first executive order to be assigned a number was , signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, but hundreds of unnumbered orders had been signed by presidents going back to George Washington.

President	Term	First	Last	Total
	1861–1865	1	2	3
	1865–1869	3	7	5
	1869–1877	8	20	15
Rutherford B. Hayes	1877–1881	-	-	0
	1881–1885	21	23	3

Grover Cleveland (1885–1889, 1893–1897)

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First presidency (1885–1889)

Second presidency (1893–1897)

Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893)

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Year	First	Last	Total
1889	-	-	0
1890	28	28	1
1891	28-1	28-1	1
1892	28-A	28-A	1
1893	29	29	1
Total	28	29	4

William McKinley (1897–1901)

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Year	First	Last	Total
1897	97	103	7
1898	104	110	10
1899	111	122	12
1900	123	134	17
1901	135	140	6
Total	97	140	52

Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909)

1901–1909: List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt: Complete list of executive orders by President Theodore Roosevelt

Year	First	Last	Total
1901	141	153	13
1902	154	196	44
1903	197	242	47
1904	243	288	47
1905	289	389	172
1906	389-A	542	165
1907	543	723	188
1908	724	1000	279
1909	1001	1050	50
Total	141	1050	1005

William Howard Taft (1909–1913)

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Year	First	Last	Total
1909	1051	1150	100
1910	1151	1277	129
1911	1278	1451	175
1912	1452	1673	221
1913	1674	1743	71
Total	1051	1743	696

Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921)

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1914: Executive Order 1888: Providing conditions of employment for the Permanent Force for the Panama Canal
1918: Executive Order 2859: National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences

Year	First	Last	Total
1913	1744	1875	136
1914	1876	2113	243
1915	2114	2294	188
1916	2295	2502	212
1917	2503	2778	296
1918	2779	3019-B	260
1919	3020	3207	224
1920	3208	3380	174
1921	3381	3415	34
Total	1744	3415	1,767

Warren G. Harding (1921–1923)

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Year	First	Last	Total
1921	3416	3604-A	191
1922	3605	3770-A	173
1923	3771	3885	118
Total	3416	3885	482

Calvin Coolidge (1923–1929)

1927: Executive Order 4601: Authorization of the Distinguished Flying Cross

Year	First	Last	Total
1923	3885-A	3940	62
1924	3941	4119	189
1925	4120	4363-A	227
1926	4364	4559	202
1927	4560	4791	240
1928	4792	5018	290
1929	5019	5075	57
Total	3885-A	5075	1,267

Herbert Hoover (1929–1933)

Year	First	Last	Total
1929	5076	5255	183
1930	5256	5523	268
1931	5524	5770	249
1932	5771	5984	215
1933	5985	6070	88
Total	5076	6070	1,003

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945)

Administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt Executive Orders Disposition Tables

Year	First	Last	Total
1933	6071	6544	569
1934	6545	6935-A	473
1935	6936	7261-A	384
1936	7262	7531	275
1937	7532	7784	257
1938	7784-A	8030	249
1939	8031	8316	287
1940	8317	8624	310
1941	8625	9005	382
1942	9006	9292	290
1943	9293	9412	122
1944	9413	9508	100
1945	9509	9537	29
Total	6071	9537	3727

Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)

Administration of Harry S Truman Executive Orders Disposition Tables

Year	First	Last	Total
1945	9538	9672	139
1946	9673	9817	148
1947	9818	9918	100
1948	9919	10025	117
1949	10026	10094	69
1950	10095	10199	95
1951	10200	10317	118
1952	10318	10420	104
1953	10421	10431	11
Total	9538	10431	907

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961)

Administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Orders Disposition Tables
EOs 10432–10913

1953: Executive Order 10450: Charged the heads of federal agencies and the Office of Personnel Management, supported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with investigating federal employees to determine whether they posed security risks
1954: Executive Order 10555: Establishing a Seal for the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped
1959: : Defined the design of the flag of the United States

Year	First	Last	Total
1953	10432	10511	80
1954	10512	10584	75
1955	10585	10649	66
1956	10650	10693	44
1957	10694	10747	55
1958	10748	10797	50
1959	10798	10857	60
1960	10858	10899	42
1961	10900	10913	14
Total	10432	10913	484

List of United States federal executive orders

Consolidated list by president

1800s

Earliest numbered executive orders

Grover Cleveland (1885–1889, 1893–1897)

First presidency (1885–1889)

Second presidency (1893–1897)

Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893)

William McKinley (1897–1901)

Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909)

William Howard Taft (1909–1913)

Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921)

Warren G. Harding (1921–1923)

Calvin Coolidge (1923–1929)

Herbert Hoover (1929–1933)

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945)

Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961)