HISTORY OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS (BY QUANTITY PER POTUS).
Posted in Uncategorized by Baba - Jan 23, 2016
Legal function of E.O.’s: To help officers and agencies of the executive branch manage the operations within the federal government itself.
Fewest E.O.’s by a POTUS: William Harrison, zero. (assassinated after 32-days in office).
Most E.O.’s by a POTUS: FDR, 3,721 (three terms in office).
Here is the number of E.O.’s enacted by recent Presidents:
Harry Truman, 907
Dwight Eisenhower, 484
John Kennedy, 214
Lyndon Johnson, 325
Richard Nixon, 346
Gerald Ford, 169
Jimmy Carter, 320
Ronald Reagan, 381
George Bush, 166
William Clinton, 364
George W. Bush, 291
Barack Obama, 228
(56% of E.O.’s have been written by Democrats, and 44% by Republicans.)
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