| A presidential pardon is the forgiveness of crime | | | | 15. George H.W. Bush - Elliott Abrams, Armand |
| of a person, the penalty imposed is therefore | | | | Hammer, Robert C. McFarlane and Caspar |
| retracted. Pardon of crime in United Sates is | | | | Weinberger |
| granted by the president. This is to ensure the | | | | 16. Bill Clinton - Roger Clinton Jr, Patty Hearst, |
| check and balance in the government's branches. | | | | Marc Rich, Pincus Green, Dan Rostenkowski, |
| The main objective of presidential pardon is to | | | | Susan McDougal, Henry Cisneros, Mel Reynolds |
| correct judicial errors, however many critics said | | | | Henry O. Flipper, John Deutch, Rick Hendrick, Vicki |
| that pardons are often used for the sake of | | | | Lopez Lukis |
| political convenience. | | | | 17. George W. Bush - Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Leslie |
| The lists of Pardons granted by each of the US | | | | Owen Collier, Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos |
| president are as follows. | | | | The US Department of Justice recommends that |
| 1. George Washington - Tom the Tinker | | | | anyone who wishes to request for a pardon must |
| 2. James Madison - Jean Lafitte, Pierre Lafitte and | | | | wait after five years after conviction before |
| the Baratarian Pirates | | | | receiving a pardon however the pardon may be |
| 3. Andrew Jackson - George Wilson | | | | given anytime by the US president and therefore |
| 4. James K. Polk - John C. Fremont. | | | | brought controversy when former president |
| 5. James Buchanan - Brigham Young | | | | Gerald Ford pardoned former president Richard |
| 6. Andrew Johnson - Dr. Samuel Mudd, Edmund | | | | Nixon even if the latter was not yet even |
| Spangler and Samuel Arnold | | | | convicted nor formally charged with a crime. |
| 7. Grover Cleveland - David King Udall | | | | The acceptance of pardon does not mean |
| 8. Warren Harding - Eugene V. Debs | | | | acquittal of the crime committed, when a person |
| 9. Calvin Coolidge - Marcus Garvey | | | | accepts the pardon he or she is also affirming his |
| 10. Harry Truman - Oscar Collazo | | | | guilt to the crime committed and therefore will |
| 11. Richard Nixon - Jimmy Hoffa and Angelo De | | | | not remove the record of conviction. |
| Carlo | | | | The power of a US president to give pardon only |
| 12. Gerald Ford - Richard Nixon, Robert E. Lee and | | | | extends to offenses within the jurisdiction federal |
| Iva Toguri D Aquino | | | | law while the state governors have the power to |
| 13. Jimmy Carter - Oscar Collazo, G. Gordon | | | | pardon offenses under the state criminal law. |
| Liddy, Peter Yarrow, Vietnam draft dodgers, | | | | While the pardon given by the US president |
| Jefferson Davis and Patty Hearst | | | | restores many rights that were lost after |
| 14. Ronald Reagan - George Steinbrenner, Junior | | | | conviction, they must still disclose the conviction |
| Johnson, W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller | | | | on any form when required. |