Executive orders issued by presidents of the United States to help officers and agencies of the executive branch manage operations within the community. At the federal level of government in the United States, laws are made almost exclusively by legislation. Such legislation originates as an Act of Congress passed by the United States Congress; such acts were either signed into law by the president or passed by Congress after a presidential veto. 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.

Consolidated list by president

1800s

Earliest numbered executive orders

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.

Grover Cleveland (1885–1889, 1893–1897)

First presidency (1885–1889)

Second presidency (1893–1897)

Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893)

William McKinley (1897–1901)

Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909)

William Howard Taft (1909–1913)

Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921)

Warren G. Harding (1921–1923)

Calvin Coolidge (1923–1929)

Herbert Hoover (1929–1933)

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945)

Administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt Executive Orders Disposition Tables

Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)

Administration of Harry S Truman Executive Orders Disposition Tables

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961)

Administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Orders Disposition Tables EOs 10432–10913

John F. Kennedy (1961–1963)

Administration of John F. Kennedy Executive Orders Disposition Tables

Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–1969)

Administration of Lyndon B. Johnson Executive Orders Disposition Tables EOs 11128–11451

Richard Nixon (1969–1974)

Administration of Richard Nixon Executive Orders Disposition Tables EOs 11452–11797

Gerald R. Ford (1974–1977)

EOs 11798–11966

Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)

Administration of Jimmy Carter Executive Orders Disposition Tables EOs 11967–12286

Ronald Reagan (1981–1989)

Administration of Ronald Reagan Executive Orders Disposition Tables

George H. W. Bush (1989–1993)

Administration of George Bush Executive Orders Disposition Tables

Bill Clinton (1993–2001)

Administration of William J. Clinton Executive Orders Disposition Tables

George W. Bush (2001–2009)

Administration of George W. Bush Executive Orders Disposition Tables

Barack Obama (2009–2017)

Administration of Barack Obama Executive Orders Disposition Tables

Donald Trump (2017–2021)

Joe Biden (2021–present)

.