So, legislation is not the only source of regulations. There is also judge-made common law and constitutional law. The president can issue executive orders pursuant to a grant of discretion from Congress, or under the inherent powers that office holds to deal with certain matters which have the force of law.
Many early executive orders were not recorded. The State Department began numbering executive orders in the early 20th century, starting retroactively from President Abraham Lincoln's Executive Order Establishing a Provisional Court in Louisiana issued in 1862.
The current numbering system for executive orders was established by the U.S. State Department in 1907, when all of the orders in the department's archives were assigned chronological numbers. The first executive order to be assigned a number was Executive Order 1, signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, but hundreds of unnumbered orders had been signed by presidents going back to George Washington.[8]
Grover Cleveland (1885–1889, 1893–1897)
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First presidency (1885–1889)
Second presidency (1893–1897)
Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893)
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William McKinley (1897–1901)
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Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909)
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1901–1909: Executive Orders by President Theodore Roosevelt: Complete list of executive orders by President Theodore Roosevelt[9][8]
William Howard Taft (1909–1913)
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Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921)
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1914: Executive Order 1888: Providing conditions of employment for the Permanent Force for the Panama Canal[10]
1918: Executive Order 2859: National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences[11]
Warren G. Harding (1921–1923)
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Calvin Coolidge (1923–1929)
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1927: Executive Order 4601:[12] Authorization of the Distinguished Flying Cross[13]
Herbert Hoover (1929–1933)
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945)
Administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt Executive Orders Disposition Tables[16]
Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)
Administration of Harry S Truman Executive Orders Disposition Tables[17]
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961)
Administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Orders Disposition Tables[18]
EOs 10432–10913
1953: Executive Order 10450: Charged the heads of federal agencies and the Office of Personnel Management, supported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), with investigating federal employees to determine whether they posed security risks.
1954: Executive Order 10555: Establishing a Seal for the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped
Administration of John F. Kennedy Executive Orders Disposition Tables[20]
1961: Executive Order 10924: Established the Peace Corps.
1961: Executive Order 10925: Required government contractors to "take affirmative action" to ensure non-discriminatory employment practices. Created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
1962: Executive Order 10990 reestablished the Federal Safety Council
1962: Executive Order 11051 was revoked by Executive Order 12148: Specifies the duties and responsibilities of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all executive orders into effect in times deemed to be of increased international tension, economic crisis, and/or financial crisis
Administration of Lyndon B. Johnson Executive Orders Disposition Tables[21]
EOs 11128–11451
1963: Executive Order 11129: Decreed on November 29, 1963 that the NASA Launch Operations Center (LOC), including facilities on Merritt Island and Cape Canaveral, would be renamed the John F. Kennedy Space Center, NASA. That name change officially took effect on December 20, 1963
1963: Executive Order 11130: Created Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of president Kennedy
1964: Executive Order 11141: Declaring a public policy against discriminating on the basis of age
1965: Executive Order 11246: Prohibited discrimination in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
1966: Executive Order 11310: Assigned Emergency Preparedness Functions to the Attorney General
Richard Nixon (1969–1974)
Administration of Richard Nixon Executive Orders Disposition Tables[22]
EOs 11452–11797
1969: Executive Order 11478: Prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, handicap, or age in the competitive service of the federal civilian workforce, which includes civilians employed by the armed forces and by federal contractors and contractors performing under federally assisted construction contracts.[23] Some categories were added by Executive Order 13087 in 1998 and Executive Order 13152 in 2000.
Gerald R. Ford (1974–1977)
EOs 11798–11966
1975: Executive Order 11850: Renunciation of certain uses in war of chemical herbicides and riot control agents.
1976: Executive Order 11921: Allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production, distribution, energy sources, wages, salaries, credit, and the flow of money.
Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)
Administration of Jimmy Carter Executive Orders Disposition Tables[25]
1989: Executive Order 12667: Establishes procedure for access to Presidential Records. (Revoked by Executive Order 13233, November 1, 2001. Restored by Executive Order on January 21, 2009.)
George H. W. Bush (1989–1993)
Administration of George Bush Executive Orders Disposition Tables[28]
Bill Clinton (1993–2001)
Administration of William J. Clinton Executive Orders Disposition Tables[29]
George W. Bush (2001–2009)
Administration of George W. Bush Executive Orders Disposition Tables[30]
Barack Obama (2009–2017)
Administration of Barack Obama Executive Orders Disposition Tables[31]
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