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Executive Orders Historical Archive
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Official portrait of Theodore Roosevelt
26th President
Republican Terms: 1901-1909

Theodore Roosevelt

Orders Tracked
104
Avg Words / Order
122
Avg Read Time
~1 min
Avg Sentiment
+0.03
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Youngstown Separation of Powers

1952 Standard

Distribution of orders across Justice Jackson's constitutional tiers:

20.2%
Zone 1 (21)
Statutory Authorization
79.8%
Zone 2 (83)
Zone of Twilight
0.0%
Zone 3 (0)
Lowest Ebb / Friction
Washington Rate Multiplier: 13.0× Washington Baseline

⚖️ Constitutional Alignment & Sentiment

Evaluated strictly through the U.S. Constitution (Articles I–VII) & Amendments from an Early Statesman's prism

104 Scored
2 (2%)
Constitutional Fidelity
Art. II §3 faithful statutory execution & civil liberty protection
102 (98%)
Constitutional Neutral
Routine departmental administration, civil service, executive seals
0 (0%)
Friction & Overreach
Art. I purse/commerce tension, 10th Amend federalism, property takings

Executive Orders Issued (104)showing the 30 most recent

EO 1044 Feb 27, 1909
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 1044—Establishing the Pribilof Reservation, Alaska

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Two small islands of the Pribilof group, located approximately in latitude fifty-seven degrees north, longitude one hundred and seventy degrees west from Greenwich, in Bering Sea, Alaska, known as Walrus island and Otter island, and located within the area segregated by the…

Theodore Roosevelt
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
EO 1000 Dec 30, 1908
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 1000—Alamo National Forest, New Mexico

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The unallotted lands in Tps. 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21 N., Rs. 5, 6, 7, and 8 W., and Tps. 22 and 23 N., Rs. 6, 7, and 8 W. of the New Mexico principal meridian, withdrawn from sale and settlement and set apart for the use of the Indians as an addition to the Navajo Reservation by…

Theodore Roosevelt
Grade 1 • 2m
Order Jan 28, 1908
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Jicarilla Apache, New Mexico

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Whereas it is found that Executive order of November 11, 1907, setting apart certain lands for the use of the Indians of the Jicarilla Indian Reservation, New Mexico, conflicts in part with Executive order of November 9, 1907, setting apart certain lands as an addition to the…

Theodore Roosevelt
Post-Graduate Legal • 2m
EO 744 Jan 28, 1908
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 744—Camp McDowell Reservation, Arizona

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Whereas it is found that the Executive order of November 9, 1907, setting apart certain lands in Arizona and New Mexico as an addition to the Navajo Indian Reservation, conflicts in part with Executive order of November 11, 1907, setting apart certain lands as an addition to…

Theodore Roosevelt
Post-Graduate Legal • 2m
EO 743 Jan 28, 1908
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 743—Pine Ridge School Reservation, South Dakota

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Whereas it is found that Executive order of November 11, 1907, setting apart certain lands for the use of the Indians of the Jicarilla Indian Reservation, N. Mex., conflicts in part with Executive order of November 9, 1907, setting apart certain lands as an addition to the…

Theodore Roosevelt
Grade 8 • 2m
EO 711 Nov 11, 1907
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 711—Pine Ridge School Reservation, South Dakota

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The following-described lands in New Mexico, viz: Beginning at the northeast corner of T. 26 N., R. 4 W.; thence east along the township line between Tps. 26 and 27 N. to the northwest corner of T. 26 N., R. 5 W.; thence due south to the southeast corner of T. 22 N., R. 5 W.…

Theodore Roosevelt
Grade 7 • 1m
EO 709 Nov 9, 1907
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 709—Camp McDowell Reservation, Arizona

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The following-described tract of country in the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, viz: Commencing at a point where the east line of the Navajo Indian Reservation, as at present constituted, intersects the north boundary of township 23 north, range 13 west, New Mexico…

Theodore Roosevelt
Post-Graduate Legal • 2m
Order Dec 19, 1906
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The following-described lands in New Mexico, namely: T. 16 N., R. 1 E., Jemez meridian, excepting any tract or tracts the title to which has passed out of the United States Government or to which valid legal rights have attached, be, and the same are, hereby withdrawn from sale…

Theodore Roosevelt
College Level • 1m
Order Feb 5, 1906
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Cancellation of Lands Set Apart in Utah

📜 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

Block 77, in the town site of Randlett, Utah, as per plat approved by the Secretary of the Interior, December 2, 1905, under the provisions of sections 2380 and 2381, Revised Statutes, located in sec. 7, T. 3 S., R. 2 E., United States meridian, be withdrawn from sale or other…

Theodore Roosevelt
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Jan 31, 1906
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Modification of Executive Order of May 21, 1887

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

A new survey having been made by First Lieut. James Huston, Tenth Cavalry, of the military reservation of Fort Washakie, Wyo., reserved by Executive order of May 21, 1887 (G.O. No. 37, Headquarters of the Army, A.G.O., May 26, 1887), as determined from the old corner monuments…

Theodore Roosevelt
College Level • 1m
Order Nov 18, 1905
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

Schedule A of the civil service rules is hereby amended by adding to Section II, Treasury Department, a new clause to be numbered 12, to read as follows: 12. One examiner of tobacco and one examiner of tea in the Customs Service at the Port of Chicago. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Theodore Roosevelt
College Level • 1m
Order Nov 17, 1905
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 5th Amend: Regulatory Execution with Due Process

Civil service rule No. 12 is hereby amended to read as follows, concerning removals: "1. In making removals or reductions, and in other punishment, penalties like in character shall be imposed for like offenses. "2.

Theodore Roosevelt
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Nov 17, 1905
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

When the President or head of an executive department is satisfied that an officer or employe in the classified service is inefficient or incapable, and that the public service will be materially improved by his removal, such removal will be made without hearing; but the cause…

Theodore Roosevelt
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Oct 17, 1905
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

When the President or head of an executive department is satisfied that an officer or employee in the classified service is inefficient or incapable, and that the public service will be materially improved by his removal, such removal will be made without hearing, but the cause…

Theodore Roosevelt
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Oct 13, 1905
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §3: Administrative Management & Civil Service

No officer or employee of the government shall, directly or indirectly, instruct or be concerned in any manner in the instruction of any person, or classes of persons, with a view to their special preparation for the examination of the United States Civil Service Commission.

Theodore Roosevelt
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Aug 31, 1905
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

Each member of the advisory board of engineers upon plans of the Panama Canal shall be allowed $5,000, payable upon the completion of the report of the board.

Theodore Roosevelt
College Level • 1m
Order Aug 26, 1905
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

The requirement that a person proposed for transfer must have actually served in the classified service at least six months next preceding the transfer may be waived in the case of the transfer of W. E. Lackland from the Treasury Department to the Post-Office at Prescott…

Theodore Roosevelt
College Level • 1m
Order Jul 29, 1905
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

All that portion of the public domain in the Territory of New Mexico embracing the following sections and fractional sections, viz: S. 1/2 sec. 1, all of secs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and N. 1/2 secs. 17, 18, 23, and 24 of T. 20 N., R. 7 E.; all of…

Theodore Roosevelt
Grade 6 • 2m
Order Jul 25, 1905
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Mrs. McLanaham, after twelve years' service, was separated from the position of sewer in the Government Printing Office prior to her marriage in 1894. In June, 1903, she was left a widow with three children to support.

Theodore Roosevelt
College Level • 1m
Order Jul 22, 1905
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

The recommendations made within by the Acting Secretary of War are approved. The Secretary of the Interior will cause this action to be noted on the records of the General Land Office. T. ROOSEVELT

Theodore Roosevelt
High School • 1m
Order Jul 21, 1905
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Fort Shaw School Reservation, Montana

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

THE PRESIDENT: The military reservation of Fort Shaw, Mont., declared by Executive order of January 11, 1870, and embracing an area of about 29,843 acres, has become useless for military purposes.

Theodore Roosevelt
High School • 2m
Order Jun 29, 1905
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

Mrs. Edna K. Hoyt, who is temporarily employed as clerk in the Department of State, may be permanently appointed, without examination under the civil-service rules, with a salary at the rate of $1,200 per annum.

Theodore Roosevelt
College Level • 1m
Order May 15, 1905
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Cancellation of Lands Set Apart in Utah

📜 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

The following-described lands situated in said State be, and the same are hereby, withheld from sale and entry and set apart for Indian purposes, as an addition to the said Indian reservation, viz: Beginning at the corner to secs. 25 and 30, 31, and 36, on the range line…

Theodore Roosevelt
High School • 1m
Order Mar 10, 1905
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order—Navaho Reservation, Utah

📜 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

The following described lands situated in the State of Utah, be, and the same are hereby, withheld from sale and settlement and set apart for Indian purposes, as an addition to the Navaho Indian Reservation, viz: Beginning at the mouth of Montezuma Creek (in Utah); running…

Theodore Roosevelt
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Jan 27, 1905
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The appointment of Mr. E. W. Libbey as telegraph and telephone operator, at $1,000 per annum, in the Department of Commerce and Labor, on July 13, 1903, is approved, and he may be continued in the service without examination under the Civil-Service rules. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Theodore Roosevelt
College Level • 1m
Order Jan 9, 1905
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Mrs. Elizabeth C. Peters may be reinstated to the position of sewer in the Government Printing Office without regard to the provision of Rule IX limiting the period of eligibility for reinstatements to one year from the date of separation. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Theodore Roosevelt
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Jan 4, 1905
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

Mrs. Evelyn M. Ford may be reinstated to the position of clerk in the office of the Secretary of War without regard to the provisions of Rule IX limiting the period of eligibility to one year from the date of separation. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Theodore Roosevelt
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Nov 29, 1904
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §3: Administrative Management & Civil Service

Substitute watchmen in the Government Printing Office will hereafter be regarded as classified under the civil-service rules. The forty persons named in the list transmitted to the Civil Service Commission by the Public Printer under date of October 4, 1904, now serving in that…

Theodore Roosevelt
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Nov 29, 1904
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §3: Administrative Management & Civil Service

In connection with this order of classification the President issued an executive order defining the positions which may be filled without competitive examination under the civil-service rules. WHITE HOUSE, November 29, 1904.

Theodore Roosevelt
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Nov 15, 1904
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

That the Isthmian Canal Commission be classified and the civil-service act and rules applied thereto, and that no person be hereafter appointed, employed, promoted, or transferred in the service of said Commission until he passes an examination in conformity therewith, unless…

Theodore Roosevelt
Grade 8 • 1m
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