Presidential Pardons List
Tom the Tinker – Leadership of the Whiskey Rebellion – the first pardons granted by a President
George Wilson – convicted of robbing the United States mails. Strangely, Wilson refused to accept the pardon.
John C. Frémont – convicted by court martial of mutiny.
Brigham Young – pardoned for role in the Utah War
Confederate soldiers – unconditional amnesty to all Confederates on Christmas Day 1868
Dr. Samuel Mudd – charged with conspiring to murder Lincoln
Edmund Spangler – charged with conspiring to murder Lincoln
Samuel Arnold – charged with conspiring to murder Lincoln
David King Udall – convicted on perjury charges; spent 3 months in a Federal Prison; received a full and unconditional pardon
Eugene V. Debs – sentence commuted
Marcus Garvey – sentence commuted and deported
Oscar Collazo – Collazo attempted his assassination. Commuted death sentence to life sentence.
Jimmy Hoffa – sentence commuted on condition
Angelo DeCarlo – convicted of extortion; served 1 1/2 years; pardoned due to poor health
Richard Nixon – full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he may have committed against the United States while President
Robert E. Lee – full rights of citizenship were posthumously restored
Iva Toguri D’Aquino – “Tokyo Rose” – only U.S. citizen convicted of treason to be pardoned
Oscar Collazo – Attempted assassination on President Harry S. Truman
G. Gordon Liddy – sentence commuted
Peter Yarrow – Singer-songwriter
Vietnam draft dodgers – amnesty issued in the form of a pardon
Jefferson Davis – President of the Confederate States of America.
Patty Hearst – Convicted of Bank Robbery; sentence commuted
George Steinbrenner – Nixon campaign contribution
Junior Johnson – Moonshining
W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller – FBI officials convicted of authorizing illegal break-ins
Elliott Abrams – Iran-Contra affair
Armand Hammer – CEO of the Occidental Petroleum Company, Nixon campaign contribution
Robert C. McFarlane – National Security Adviser to President Ronald Reagan over Iran-Contra Affair
Caspar Weinberger – Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan, pardoned before trial over Iran-Contra Affair
Roger Clinton, Jr. – brother of Bill Clinton. After serving a year in federal prison for cocaine possession.
Patty Hearst – sentence for bank robbery commuted on condition by Jimmy Carter, pardoned by Clinton.
Marc Rich, Pincus Green – business partners; had fled the U.S. after being indicted by U.S. Attorney on charges of tax evasion and illegal trading with Iran during the Iran hostage crisis.
Dan Rostenkowski – United States Representative Democratic Party.
Susan McDougal – partners with Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the failed Whitewater deal.
Henry Cisneros – Clinton’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count for lying to the FBI, and was fined $10,000.
Mel Reynolds – Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives.
Henry O. Flipper – guilty of “conduct unbecoming an officer” (1882)
John Deutch – Director of Central Intelligence, former Provost and University Professor, MIT
Rick Hendrick – NASCAR Team Owner & Champion.
Lewis “Scooter” Libby – Convicted of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements to investigators in connection with the CIA leak scandal involving members of President George W. Bush’s administration.
Leslie Owen Collier – Convicted of killing 3 Bald Eagles, and other birds of prey, in 1995.
Ignacio Ramos – Shooting and wounding drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete Dávila and trying to cover up the incident
José Compeán – Shooting and wounding drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete Dávila and trying to cover up the incident
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