| 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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