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Federal Publications Resources: Presidential Executive Orders

  • Executive Orders Disposition Tables  (National Archives)
    Includes full text for the Clinton administration forward (January 20, 1993 to the present; Executive Order 12834 to the present).  Path: Presidential Documents/Executive Orders Disposition Tables
  • American Presidency Project (University of California Santa Barbara)
    Full text of selected executive orders from John Adams to George W. Bush.
  • Donnelly Collection 
    Full text of selected executive orders.
     
  • Code of Federal Regulations: Title 3, the President.   AE2.106/3:3  Doc Ref
    Includes texts of Executive Orders from 1976 to the present, with the exception of the 1996 volume, which can be found online at the Executive Orders Disposition Tables (see link above).
  • Code of Federal Regulations: Title 3, the President.   AE2.106/3  Doc Ref
    Includes texts of Executive Orders from 1936 through 1975. 
  • Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt.   E896 .R749
    Texts of some significant Executive Orders for 1933-1936 can be found here.
  • Herbert Hoover: Proclamations and Executive Orders.   AE2.114/2 H76  Doc
    Includes March 4, 1929 to March 4, 1933.
  • Kappler's Indian Affairs.   I1 107 Doc Ref
    Includes texts of Executive Orders pertaining to Indian tribes, 1871-1938.  Also available online.
     
  • Monthly Catalog of US Government Publications.  GP3 8  Doc Ref
    Listings (not text) of Executive Orders for 1895-1947, appear under "President of United States" in each issue.
  • List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, Unnumbered Series.
    GS4 108/1 Doc Ref
    A partial listing (no text) for 1789-1941.  Arranged chronologically with a subject index.

    NOTE: full text and indexing for executive orders before 1936 can be found at the University of Colorado-Boulder Law Library in a microfiche set entitled CIS Executive Orders and Proclamations, 1789-1983.
    The CU government documents department also has a microfilm set of numbered executive orders for 1862 through 1936.  Check with the CU government documents department in both cases.
     
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Content: Doug Ernest