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This page is a list ofExecutive orders which have been issued by theOffice of the President of the United States of America (POTUS) 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 theUnited States Congress and defined by the Constitution of the United States, as interpreted by the Judicial branch of the federal government.

At thefederal level of government in the United States, laws are made almost exclusively bylegislation. Such legislation originates as anact of Congress passed by theU.S. Congress; such acts were either signed into law by the president or passed by Congress after apresidential veto.

Legislation is not the only source of law. There is also judge-madecommon law andconstitutional law. The president can also issue executive orders pursuant to agrant of discretion from Congress, or under the inherent powers that office holds to deal with certain matters which have theforce of law.

Many early executive orders were not recorded. TheState Department began numbering executive orders in the early 20th century, starting retroactively from PresidentAbraham Lincoln's Executive OrderEstablishing a Provisional Court in Louisiana issued in 1862.

• 1836:Specie Circular – Required payment for public lands be ingold andsilverspecie, repealed in 1838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^[5]
• 1872:Colville Indian Reservation is created

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 wasExecutive Order 1, signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, but hundreds of unnumbered orders had been signed by presidents going back to George Washington.^[6]

Works by or aboutGrover Cleveland's Executive Orders atWikisource

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Works by or aboutBenjamin Harrison's Executive Orders atWikisource

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Works by or aboutWilliam McKinley's Executive Orders atWikisource

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Works by or aboutTheodore Roosevelt's Executive Orders atWikisource

• 1901–1909:List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt: Complete list of executive orders by President Theodore Roosevelt^[7][6]

Works by or aboutWilliam Howard Taft's Executive Orders atWikisource

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Works by or aboutWoodrow Wilson's Executive Orders atWikisource

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• 1914: Executive Order 1888: Providing conditions of employment for the Permanent Force for thePanama Canal^[8]
• 1918: Executive Order 2859: National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences^[9]

Works by or aboutWarren G. Harding's Executive Orders atWikisource

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Works by or aboutCalvin Coolidge's Executive Orders atWikisource

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• 1927: Executive Order 4601:^[10] Authorization of the Distinguished Flying Cross^[11]

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Administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[14]

Administration of Harry S Truman Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[15]

Administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[16]

EOs 10432–10913

• 1953:Executive Order 10450: Charged the heads of federal agencies and the Office of Personnel Management, supported by theFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 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:Executive Order10834: Defined the design of theflag of the United States^[17]

Establishment of the Peace Corps

John F. Kennedy's announcement of the establishment of thePeace Corps

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Administration of John F. Kennedy Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[18]

• 1961: Executive Order 10924: Established thePeace Corps
• 1961: Executive Order 10925: Required government contractors to "take affirmative action" to ensure non-discriminatory employment practices. Created theEqual Employment Opportunity Commission
• 1962:Executive Order 10988: Recognizes the right of federal workers to join employee organizations andbargain collectively
• 1962:Executive Order 10990: Reestablished the Federal Safety Council
• 1962:Executive Order 11051: Specifies the duties and responsibilities of theOffice of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all executive orders into effect in times deemed to be of increased international tension, economic crisis, and/or financial crisis. Revoked byExecutive Order 12148
• 1963:Executive Order 11110: Delegating the authority to issuesilver certificates under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of May 12, 1933 to theSecretary of theTreasury
• 1963: Executive Order 11111: Federalized theAlabama National Guard in response to theStand in the Schoolhouse Door

Administration of Lyndon B. Johnson Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[19]

EOs 11128–11451

• 1963:Executive Order 11129: Decreed on November 29, 1963 that the NASA Launch Operations Center (LOC), including facilities onMerritt Island andCape Canaveral, would be renamed theJohn F. Kennedy Space Center, NASA. That name change officially took effect on December 20, 1963
• 1963:Executive Order 11130: Created theWarren Commission to investigate theassassination of President John F. Kennedy
• 1964: Executive Order 11141: Declaring a public policy against discriminating on the basis of age
• 1965:Executive Order 11246: Prohibiteddiscrimination in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; rescinded during President Trump's second term.^[20]
• 1966:Executive Order 11310: Assigned Emergency Preparedness Functions to theAttorney General

Administration of Richard Nixon Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[21]

EOs 11452–11797

• 1969:Executive Order 11478: Prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, handicap, or age in thecompetitive service of the federal civilian workforce, which includes civilians employed by thearmed forces and by federal contractors and contractors performing under federally assisted construction contracts.^[22] Some categories were added byExecutive Order 13087 in 1998 and Executive Order 13152 in 2000.

EOs 11798–11966

• 1975:Executive Order 11850: Renunciation of certain uses in war of chemical herbicides and riot control agents
• 1976:Executive Order 11905: Outlawed the use of politicalassassination^[23]
• 1976:Executive Order 11921: Allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production, distribution, energy sources, wages, salaries, credit, and the flow of money

Administration of Jimmy Carter Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[24]

EOs 11967–12286

• 1977: Executive Order 11967: ImplementedProclamation 4483, pardoningdraft evaders of the Vietnam War
• 1978:Executive Order 12036: Reformed theU.S. Intelligence Community and further banned assassination
• 1979:Executive Order 12148: Established theFederal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• 1979:Executive Order 12170: Allows the freezing of allIranian assets held within the United States
• 1979:Executive Order 12172: Iranian aliens delegation of entry into the United States

Administration of Ronald Reagan Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[25]

• 1981:Executive Order 12333: Strengthened management of the U.S. Intelligence Community
• 1982: Executive Order 12372:^[26] Intergovernmental Review of federal programs
• 1986:Executive Order 12564: Drug-Free Federal Workplace
• 1987:Executive Order 12601: President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic
• 1988:Executive Order 12656: Assignment of Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities
• 1988:Executive Order 12631: Working Group on Financial Markets
• 1989:Executive Order 12667: Establishes procedure for access to Presidential Records (Revoked byExecutive Order 13233, November 1, 2001. Restored by Executive Order on January 21, 2009)

Administration of George Bush Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[27]

Administration of William J. Clinton Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[28]

Administration of George W. Bush Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[29]

Administration of Barack Obama Executive Orders Disposition Tables^[30]

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