Reflecting on this past week and the presidential holiday on Monday the 19th, Lawyers Help Lawyers is proud to present our list of the 44 out of 45 presidents and their significant changes in law, or within the legal confines of the United States throughout each of their presidency:
1. George Washington
Copyright act of 1790
2. John Adams
The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798
3. Thomas Jefferson
Enabling Act of 1787
4. James Madison
Known as “Father of the Constitution”
5. James Monroe
Monroe Doctrine
6. John Quincy Adams
Erie Canal Completed
7. Andrew Jackson
Indian Removal Act
8. Martin Van Buren
Independent Treasury Act
9. William Henry Harrison
Premature Death
10. John Tyler
Resumed presidency
11. James Polk
Tariff of 1846
12. Zachary Taylor
Compromise of 1850
13. Millard Fillmore
Fugitive Slave Bill and Act
14. Franklin Pierce
Kansas-Nebraska Act
15. James Buchanan
English Bill
16. Abraham Lincoln
Thirteenth Amendment
17. Andrew Johnson
Articles of Impeachment
18. Ulysses S. Grant
Civil Rights Act of 1875
19. Rutherford B. Hayes
Bland-Allision Act
20. James Garfield
Assassination prompted Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883
21. Chester Arthur
Pendleton Act
22. Grover Cleveland
Dawes Act
23. Benjamin Harrison
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
24. Grover Cleveland
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
25. William McKinley
Gold Standard Act
26. Theodore Roosevelt
Elkins Anti-Rebate Act
27. William H. Taft
Mann-Elkins Act of 1910
28. Woodrow Wilson
Federal Reserve Act
29. Warren Harding
Emergency Quota Act
30. Calvin Coolidge
Air Commerce Act
31. Herbert Hoover
Agricultural Marketing Act
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Deal
33. Harry Truman
Employment Act of 1946
34. Dwight Eisenhower
Federal Highway Act 1956
35. John F. Kennedy
Civil Rights Act of 1963
36. Lyndon Johnson
Civil Rights Act of 1964
37. Richard Nixon
Clean Air Bill
38. Gerald Ford
Privacy Act of 1974
39. Jimmy Carter
Refugee Act of 1980
40. Ronald Reagan
Immigration Reform and Control Act
41. George H.W. Bush
Americans Disabilities Act
42. William J. Clinton
Family Medical Leave Act
43. George W. Bush
No Child Left Behind Act
44. Barack Obama
Affordable Care Act
