how many people did the Biden administration pardon

Joe Biden’s administration granted 4,245 acts of clemency over his four- year term, according to Pew Research; that total includes pardons and commutations, not pardons alone. If you mean pardons specifically , the White House said Biden had granted 39 pardons in his big December 2024 clemency action, and it also listed earlier pardon batches during his term.

What that means

• Total clemency actions: 4,245.
• Pardons in the December 2024 announcement: 39.

• Earlier pardon batches: 3 in April 2022, 6 in December 2022, and 11 in December 2023/April 2024.

Simple reading

If your question is “how many people did the Biden administration pardon?”, the safest short answer is: at least 59 individual pardons are listed in the White House’s year-by-year summary, plus broad categorical pardons for marijuana and some former service members. Because those categorical pardons applied to groups rather than named individuals, the exact number of people covered is larger and harder to pin down from the summary alone.

Public-facing version

Biden’s clemency record was much bigger than just the number of pardons. The headline number was 4,245 clemency acts , while the White House’s listed individual pardons add up to 59.

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