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Top 10 US Presidents who pardoned the most people

The plenary power to grant a pardon or a reprieve is granted to the president by Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution; the only limits mentioned in the Constitution are that pardons are limited to federal offenses, and that they cannot affect an impeachment process.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_or_granted_clemency_by_the_president_of_the_United_States
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# of pardons
Notable pardons
President
200,566 (estimated)
Vietnam draft dodgers
Jimmy Carter
13,306
Ex-Confederates
Andrew Johnson
6,526
Hunter Biden, laptop owner
Joe Biden
3,687
Roy Olmstead, bootlegger
Franklin D. Roosevelt
2,480
George Burdick, refused his pardon
Woodrow Wilson
2,044
violators of Selective Service Act of 1940
Harry S. Truman
1,927
Willie McCovey, namesake of McCovey Cove in Oracle Park
Barack Obama
1,525
Lothar Witzke, German spy
Calvin Coolidge
1,385
Warren T. McCray, convicted due to his opposition to the KKK
Herbert Hoover
1,332
Ex-Confederate leaders
Ulysses S. Grant
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