Summary of Vetoes
| President | Regular vetoes |
Pocket vetoes |
Total vetoes |
Vetoes overridden |
Percentage vetoes overridden |
Percentage regular vetoes overridden |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 1497 | 1067 | 2564 | 110 | 4% | 7% |
| George Washington | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| John Adams | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| Thomas Jefferson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| James Madison | 5 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| James Monroe | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| John Q. Adams | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| Andrew Jackson | 5 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| Martin Van Buren | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| William Harrison | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| John Tyler | 6 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 10% | 16% |
| James Polk | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| Zachary Taylor | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| Millard Fillmore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| Franklin Pierce | 9 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 56% | 56% |
| James Buchanan | 4 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| Abraham Lincoln | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| Andrew Johnson | 21 | 8 | 29 | 15 | 52% | 71% |
| Ulysses Grant | 45 | 48 | 93 | 4 | 4% | 9% |
| Rutherford Hayes | 12 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 8% | 8% |
| James Garfield | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| Chester Arthur | 4 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 8% | 25% |
| Grover Cleveland | 304 | 110 | 414 | 2 | 1% | 1% |
| Benjamin Harrison | 19 | 25 | 44 | 1 | 2% | 5% |
| Grover Cleveland | 42 | 128 | 170 | 5 | 3% | 12% |
| William McKinley | 6 | 36 | 42 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 42 | 40 | 82 | 1 | 1% | 2% |
| William Taft | 30 | 9 | 39 | 1 | 3% | 3% |
| Woodrow Wilson | 33 | 11 | 44 | 6 | 14% | 18% |
| Warren Harding | 5 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| Calvin Coolidge | 20 | 30 | 50 | 4 | 8% | 20% |
| Herbert Hoover | 21 | 16 | 37 | 3 | 8% | 14% |
| Franklin Roosevelt | 372 | 263 | 635 | 9 | 1% | 2% |
| Harry Truman | 180 | 70 | 250 | 12 | 5% | 7% |
| Dwight Eisenhower | 73 | 108 | 181 | 2 | 1% | 3% |
| John Kennedy | 12 | 9 | 21 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| Lyndon Johnson | 16 | 14 | 30 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| Richard Nixon | 26 | 17 | 43 | 7 | 16% | 27% |
| Gerald Ford | 48 | 18 | 66 | 12 | 18% | 25% |
| Jimmy Carter | 13 | 18 | 31 | 2 | 6% | 15% |
| Ronald Reagan | 39 | 39 | 78 | 9 | 12% | 23% |
| George H. W. Bush | 29 | 15 | 44 | 1 | 2% | 2% |
| Bill Clinton | 36 | 1 | 37 | 2 | 5% | 6% |
| George W. Bush | 11 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 33% | 36% |
| Barack Obama | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
Read more about this topic: List Of United States Presidential Vetoes
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