Is there a list of pardons granted by President Truman?
Harry S. Truman granted 1,913 individual pardons as President of the United States from 1945 to 1953. He also commuted (reduced) 118 prison sentences and remitted 13 fines. A yearly breakdown of Truman’s exercise of executive clemency is provided below. The statistics are furnished by the Justice Department. During Truman’s Presidency, the federal fiscal year (FY) began on July 1 of the preceding calendar year; thus, FY 1946 actually began on July 1, 1945. YearPetitions PendingPetitions ReceivedPardonsCommutationsRemissionsPetitions Denied* FY 19454792019892133 FY 1946438977279283570 FY 1947535779308132483 FY 1948508657178150411 FY 1949561638178171313 FY 1950690504400143338 FY 1951439467189101228 FY 195247847719260214 FY 19535433309161137 Total (93 months) 5,0301,913118132,887 *or closed without presidential action Official File (OF) 470 of the Harry S. Truman Papers contains about 4,000 pages of material relating to Presidential pardons. This material consists mostly of messages from
