List of Presidential Vetoes
The Senate Library maintains a list of all bills vetoed by presidents over
time. This list is published from time to time. The source for the information
presented on this page was published in three documents, Presidential Vetoes,
1789 – 1988, Presidential Vetoes, 1989 – 2000, and Vetoes by
President George W. Bush. This list is culled from within these three
documents. As of this writing, there have been no veto actions by President
Barack Obama.
The reports are
available in PDF format online:
1789 – 1988 edition;
1989 – 2000 edition.
The vetoes of President George W. Bush are available in HTML format:
2001 – 2008 edition.
| President | Regular Vetoes | Pocket Vetoes | Total Vetoes |
Vetoes Overridden |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Washington | 2 | 2 | ||
| John Adams | 0 | |||
| Thomas Jefferson | 0 | |||
| James Madison | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
| James Monroe | 1 | 1 | ||
| John Q. Adams | 0 | |||
| Andrew Jackson | 5 | 7 | 12 | |
| Martin Van Buren | 1 | 1 | ||
| William Harrison | 0 | |||
| John Tyler | 6 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| James Polk | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Zachary Taylor | 0 | |||
| Millard Fillmore | 0 | |||
| Franklin Pierce | 9 | 9 | 5 | |
| James Buchanan | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Abraham Lincoln | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
| Andrew Johnson | 21 | 8 | 29 | 15 |
| Ulysses Grant | 45 | 48 | 93 | 4 |
| Rutherford Hayes | 12 | 1 | 13 | 1 |
| James Garfield | 0 | |||
| Chester Arthur | 4 | 8 | 12 | 1 |
| Grover Cleveland | 304 | 110 | 414 | 2 |
| Benjamin Harrison | 19 | 25 | 44 | 1 |
| Grover Cleveland | 42 | 128 | 170 | 5 |
| William McKinley | 6 | 36 | 42 | |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 42 | 40 | 82 | 1 |
| William Taft | 30 | 9 | 39 | 1 |
| Woodrow Wilson | 33 | 11 | 44 | 6 |
| Warren Harding | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
| Calvin Coolidge | 20 | 30 | 50 | 4 |
| Herbert Hoover | 21 | 16 | 37 | 3 |
| Franklin Roosevelt | 372 | 263 | 635 | 9 |
| Harry Turman | 180 | 70 | 250 | 12 |
| Dwight Eisenhower | 73 | 108 | 181 | 2 |
| John Kennedy | 12 | 9 | 21 | |
| Lyndon Johnson | 16 | 14 | 30 | |
| Richard Nixon | 26 | 17 | 43 | 7 |
| Gerald Ford | 48 | 18 | 66 | 12 |
| Jimmy Carter | 13 | 18 | 31 | 2 |
| Ronald Reagan | 39 | 39 | 78 | 9 |
| George H.W. Bush | 29 | 15 | 44 | 1 |
| William Clinton | 36 | 1 | 37 | 2 |
| George W. Bush | 12 | 12 | 4 | |
| Barack Obama | 0 |
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Last Modified: 24 Jan 2010