List Of U.s. Presidential Vetoes

George Washington

Two vetos

1. The Apportionment Bill, vetoed April 5, 1792, on constitutional grounds. http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/presidency/vetoes/
2. A Bill to alter and amend an Act entitled 'An Act to ascertain and fix the military establishment of the United States, vetoed February 28, 1797, on the advice of Secretary of War James McHenry. http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/presidency/vetoes/

John Adams

No vetos

Thomas Jefferson

No vetos

James Madison

Five vetos, all on constitutional grounds

1. An act incorporating the Protestant Episcopal Church in the town of Alexandria in the District of Columbia, vetoed February 21, 1811. The bill provided for the incorporation of an Episcopal church in Alexandria into the District of Columbia. Madison vetoed it on the ground that it violated the Establishment Clause. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llhb&fileName=023/llhb023.db&recNum=328http://www.sunnetworks.net/~ggarman/madison.html
2. An act for the relief of Richard Tervin, William Coleman, Edwin Lewis, Samuel Mims, Joseph Wilson, and the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, in the Mississippi Territory, vetoed February 28, 1811. The bill granting public lands to a Baptist church in the Mississippi Territory. Madison vetoed it on the ground that it violated the Establishment Clause. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llhb&fileName=044/llhb044.db&recNum=102http://www.sunnetworks.net/~ggarman/madison.html
3. The Bonus Bill (An act to set apart and pledge certain funds for internal improvements, and which sets apart and pledges funds for constructing roads and canals, and improving the navigation of water courses to facilitate, promote, and give security to internal commerce among the several States, and to render more easy and less expensive the means and provisions for the common defense), vetoed March 3, 1817. The bill was sponsored by John C. Calhoun and provided for internal improvements (a using surplus funds from the Second Bank of the United States. Madison vetoed on constitutional grounds. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/transport/finance.html

James Monroe

One veto

1. The Cumberland Road Bill (An act for the preservation and repair of the Cumberland road), vetoed May 4, 1822. Monroe wrote in his veto message that " A power to establish turnpikes with gates and tolls, and to enforce the collection of tolls by penalties, implies a power to adopt and execute a complete system of internal improvement," which he believed was unconstitutional. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llhb&fileName=008/llhb008.db&recNum=56

Richard Nixon

• January 4, 1974 - Nixon pocket vetoed a bill to provide federal funds for local purchases of buses for mass transportation.

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