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Veto Rates Compared

President	Total¹
Washington	2
J. Adams	0
Jefferson	0
Madison	7
Monroe	1
J. Q. Adams	0
Jackson	12
Van Buren	1
W. H. Harrisoon	0
Tyler	10
Polk	3
Taylor	0
Fillmore	0
Pierce	9
Buchanan	7
Lincoln	7
A. Johnson	29
Grant	93
Hayes	13
Garfield	0
Arthur	12
Cleveland (1st)	414
B. Harrison	44
Cleveland (2nd)	170
McKinley	42
T. Roosevelt	82
Taft	39
Wilson	44
Harding	6
Coolidge	50
Hoover	37
F. D. Roosevelt	635
Truman	250
Eisenhower	181
Kennedy	21
L. B. Johnson	30
Nixon²	43
Ford	66
Carter	31
Reagan	78
G. H. W. Bush²	44
Clinton	37
G. W. Bush	9

1. Includes private bills drafted primarily for individual relief. Franklin D. Roosevelt vetoed 497 such bills; Grover Cleveland vetoed 482. Bill Clinton did not veto any.

2. One Nixon veto later invalidated; Bush vetoes do not include two pocket vetoes not recognized by Congress.

Source: Congressional Quarterly, vol. 59, no. 3, Jan. 20, 2001; http://clerk.house.gov.

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