chrissoria/executive-orders

U.S. Executive Orders, 1791 to the present

Every executive order with its full text, one row per order, newest first.

Where it comes from

• Orders signed up to March 2026 were collected once from the American Presidency Project at UC Santa Barbara, which has gathered executive orders back to 1791.
• Orders signed since are added each day from the Federal Register API, the government's official journal, which publishes every executive order a few days after it is signed.

Orders from 1994 on also carry their Federal Register document number, the date they were published there, and links to the Register's page and PDF.

The orders themselves are works of the U.S. government.

Columns

Column	Description
date	The day the order was signed (YYYY-MM-DD).
title	The order's title, with "Executive Order NNNNN—" in front when it has a number.
executive_order_number	The order's number. Empty for early orders, which were not numbered.
president	The president who signed it, spelled as the American Presidency Project spells it. Terms that are not consecutive are told apart, as in "Donald J. Trump (2nd Term)".
party	That president's party.
text	The full text of the order.
url	Where the row was collected from.
year	The year of date.
source	"American Presidency Project" or "Federal Register".
document_number	The Federal Register's document number (1994 on).
publication_date	The day the Federal Register published the order (1994 on).
federal_register_url	The order's page in the Federal Register (1994 on).
pdf_url	The order as printed, as a PDF (1994 on).

Things to know

• The Federal Register files a few other documents under "executive order": corrections to earlier orders, and presidential orders that have no executive order number. Those are not included.
• An order appears here once the Federal Register has published it, usually within a week of signing.
• Text collected from the two sources is laid out a little differently: rows from the Federal Register begin with the Register's heading for the order.
• Order numbers before the mid-1900s are not all unique in the source, because some early orders were numbered after the fact or share a number with a letter suffix.

Updates

update_executive_orders.py in cat-pol-datasets runs daily. It never publishes a table with fewer rows than the one already here.