Executive Orders per President

 

Consolidated list by president[edit]

#	President	Party	Total executive orders	Order number range	Years in office	Executive orders per year	Period
1	George Washington	Unaffiliated	8	unnumbered	7.95	1.0	April 30, 1789 – March 4, 1797
2	John Adams	Federalist	1	unnumbered	4	0.3	March 4, 1797 – March 4, 1801
3	Thomas Jefferson	Democratic-Republican	4	unnumbered	8	0.5	March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1809
4	James Madison	Democratic-Republican	1	unnumbered	8	0.1	March 4, 1809 – March 4, 1817
5	James Monroe	Democratic-Republican	1	unnumbered	8	0.1	March 4, 1817 – March 4, 1825
6	John Quincy Adams	Democratic-Republican	3	unnumbered	4	0.8	March 4, 1825 – March 4, 1829
7	Andrew Jackson	Democratic	12	unnumbered	8	1.5	March 4, 1829 – March 4, 1837
8	Martin Van Buren	Democratic	10	unnumbered	4	2.5	March 4, 1837 – March 4, 1841
9	William Henry Harrison	Whig	0	unnumbered	0.08	0.0	March 4, 1841 – April 4, 1841
10	John Tyler	Whig	17	unnumbered	3.92	4.3	April 4, 1841 – March 4, 1845
11	James K. Polk	Democratic	18	unnumbered	4	4.5	March 4, 1845 – March 4, 1849
12	Zachary Taylor	Whig	5	unnumbered	1.34	3.7	March 4, 1849 – July 9, 1850
13	Millard Fillmore	Whig	12	unnumbered	2.66	4.5	July 9, 1850 – March 4, 1853
14	Franklin Pierce	Democratic	35	unnumbered	4	8.8	March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1857
15	James Buchanan	Democratic	16	unnumbered	4	4.0	March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861
16	Abraham Lincoln	Republican	48	unnumbered	4.11	11.7	March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865
17	Andrew Johnson	Democratic	79	unnumbered	3.89	20.3	April 15, 1865 – March 4, 1869
18	Ulysses S. Grant	Republican	217	unnumbered	8	27.1	March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1877
19	Rutherford B. Hayes	Republican	92	unnumbered	4	23.0	March 4, 1877 – March 4, 1881
20	James A. Garfield	Republican	6	unnumbered	0.54	11.1	March 4, 1881 – September 19, 1881
21	Chester A. Arthur	Republican	96	unnumbered	3.46	27.7	September 19, 1881 – March 4, 1885
22	Grover Cleveland - I	Democratic	113	unnumbered	4	28.3	March 4, 1885 – March 4, 1889
23	Benjamin Harrison	Republican	143	unnumbered	4	35.8	March 4, 1889 – March 4, 1893
24	Grover Cleveland - II	Democratic	140	unnumbered	4	35.0	March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897
25	William McKinley	Republican	185	unnumbered	4.53	40.9	March 4, 1897 – September 14, 1901
26	Theodore Roosevelt	Republican	1,081		7.47	144.7	September 14, 1901 – March 4, 1909
27	William Howard Taft	Republican	724		4	181.0	March 4, 1909 – March 4, 1913
28	Woodrow Wilson	Democratic	1,803		8	225.4	March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921
29	Warren G. Harding	Republican	522		2.41	216.9	March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923
30	Calvin Coolidge	Republican	1,203		5.59	215.2	August 2, 1923 – March 4, 1929
31	Herbert Hoover	Republican	968	5075–6070	4	242.0	March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933
32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Democratic	3,728	6071–9537	12.11	307.8	March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945
33	Harry S. Truman	Democratic	907	9538–10431	7.77	116.7	April 12, 1945 – January 20, 1953
34	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Republican	484	10432–10913	8	60.5	January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961
35	John F. Kennedy	Democratic	214	10914–11127	2.84	75.4	January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963
36	Lyndon B. Johnson	Democratic	325	11128–11451	5.16	62.9	November 22, 1963 – January 20, 1969
37	Richard Nixon	Republican	346	11452–11797	5.56	62.3	January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974
38	Gerald Ford	Republican	169	11798–11966	2.45	69.1	August 9, 1974 – January 20, 1977
39	Jimmy Carter	Democratic	320	11967–12286	4	80.0	January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981
40	Ronald Reagan	Republican	381	12287–12667	8	47.6	January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989
41	George H. W. Bush	Republican	166	12668–12833	4	41.5	January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993
42	Bill Clinton	Democratic	364	12834–13197	8	45.5	January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001
43	George W. Bush	Republican	291	13198–13488	8	36.4	January 20, 2001 – January 20, 2009
44	Barack Obama	Democratic	276	13489–13764	8	34.6	January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017
45	Donald Trump	Republican	220	13765–13984	4	55.0	January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021
46	Joe Biden	Democratic	25	13985 and above	0.02	1014.6	January 20, 2021 – Present