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  2. Office of the Pardon Attorney - Wikipedia

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    Since 1789 various offices within the federal government have provided the president with administrative support for the exercise of executive clemency. A presidential order in 1865 formally delegated this responsibility to the Department of Justice. The office's current name was adopted in 1894. [4]

  3. What is a presidential pardon? How is it different than a ...

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    Executive clemency is a broad term that applies to the president's constitutional power to exercise leniency toward persons who have committed federal crimes, according to the DOJ. Commutation of ...

  4. Federal pardons in the United States - Wikipedia

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    President Gerald R. Ford's broad federal pardon of former president Richard M. Nixon in 1974 for "all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974" is a notable example of a fixed-period federal pardon that came ...

  5. List of people pardoned or granted clemency by the president ...

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    Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irving Flores Rodriguez – opened fire in the U.S. House of Representatives and wounding five Congressmen in 1954; clemency; Frederic B. Ingram – Heir from Tennessee, convicted of bribing government officials in Illinois in 1977; jailed for 16 months. [32] His sentence was commuted by Carter in December ...

  6. Biden's clemency list includes attorney charged with fraud ...

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    Malcolm Hartzog’s life sentence had already been commuted to 30 years in prison by President Barack Obama in 2016, in what at the time was a record-setting use of clemency power.

  7. There was similar fallout in Illinois, after Biden gave clemency to Rita ... sense of betrayal from the federal justice system, the White House and the president,” Dixon city manager Danny ...

  8. List of people granted executive clemency by Donald Trump ...

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    In his role as 45th and 47th president of the United States (January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021 and January 20, 2025 – present), Donald Trump granted executive clemency to 237 individuals in his first term, and over 1,500 individuals as of January 22, 2025, in his second, all of whom were charged or convicted of federal criminal offenses.

  9. List of people granted executive clemency by Barack Obama

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    By the end of his second and final term on January 20, 2017, United States President Barack Obama had exercised his constitutional power to grant the executive clemency—that is, "pardon, commutation of sentence, remission of fine or restitution, and reprieve" [1] —to 1,927 individuals convicted of federal crimes.