The following is a partial list of people pardoned by Bill Clinton. As President, Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

 used his power under the U.S. Constitution to grant pardon

Pardon

Clemency means the forgiveness of a crime or the cancellation of the penalty associated with it. It is a general concept that encompasses several related procedures: pardoning, commutation, remission and reprieves...

s and clemency to 456 people, thus commuting

Commutation of sentence

Commutation of sentence involves the reduction of legal penalties, especially in terms of imprisonment. Unlike a pardon, a commutation does not nullify the conviction and is often conditional. Clemency is a similar term, meaning the lessening of the penalty of the crime without forgiving the crime...

 the sentences of those already convicted of a crime, and obviating a trial for those not yet convicted. On January 20, 2001, he pardoned 140 people in the final hours of his presidency.

This list is a subset of the list of people pardoned by a United States president.

Commutations

1. Ronald Henderson Blackley
2. Bert Wayne Bolan
3. Jon Michael Burton - charged with heavy drug trafficking.
4. Gloria Libia Camargo
5. Charles F. Campbell
6. David Ronald Chandler - federal death row
   Death row
   Death row signifies the place, often a section of a prison, that houses individuals awaiting execution. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution , even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists.After individuals are found...
   
    inmate.
7. Lau Ching Chin
8. Donald R. Clark
9. Loreta De-Ann Coffman
10. Derrick Curry
11. Velinda Desalus
12. Jacob Elbaum
13. Linda Sue Evans
14. Loretta Sharon Fish
15. Antoinette M. Frink
16. David Goldstein
17. Gerard A. Greenfield
18. Bob F. Griffin
    Bob F. Griffin
    Bob F. Griffin served as Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1981 to 1995—longer than any other speaker in state history....
    
    , former Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives
    Missouri House of Representatives
    The Missouri House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the Missouri General Assembly. It has 163 members, representing districts with an average size of 31,000 residents. House members are elected for two-year terms during general elections held in even-numbered years.In 1992 Missouri...
    
    , who was serving two years on bribery charges.
19. Jodie E. Israel
20. Kimberly Johnson
21. Billy Thornton Langston Jr.
22. Vicki Lopez Lukis on November 21, 2000, former Lee County, FL Commissioner who was serving a 27-month sentence for honest services mail fraud. Her conviction was vacated on February 14, 2011.
23. Belinda Lynn Lumpkin
24. Peter MacDonald
    Peter MacDonald (Navajo leader)
    Peter MacDonald is a Native American politician and the only four term Chairman of the Navajo Tribe. He was born in Arizona, U.S.A., served the U.S...
    
     - Navajo Chairman
    Navajo Nation
    The Navajo Nation is a semi-autonomous Native American-governed territory covering , occupying all of northeastern Arizona, the southeastern portion of Utah, and northwestern New Mexico...
    
    , serving a 14-year sentence for fraud and racketeering convictions.
25. Kellie Ann Mann
26. Peter Ninemire
27. Hugh Ricardo Padmore
28. Arnold Paul Prosperi - Florida attorney, tax fraud, managed Clinton's 1967 campaign for student-council president.
29. Melvin J. Reynolds
    Mel Reynolds
    Melvin Reynolds is a former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois. His political career ended in scandal.-Early life:...
    
     - Democratic Congressman from Illinois - bank fraud
    Bank fraud
    Bank fraud is the use of fraudulent means to obtain money, assets, or other property owned or held by a financial institution, or to obtain money from depositors by fraudulently representing to be a bank or financial institution. In many instances, bank fraud is a criminal offense...
    
     and obstruction of justice
    Obstruction of justice
    The crime of obstruction of justice, in United States jurisdictions, refers to the crime of interfering with the work of police, investigators, regulatory agencies, prosecutors, or other officials...
    
    
30. Pedro Miguel Riveiro
31. Dorothy Rivers - lead official in Jesse Jackson
    Jesse Jackson
    Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. is an African-American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He was the founder of both entities that merged to...
    
    ’s Rainbow/PUSH
    Rainbow/PUSH
    Rainbow/PUSH is a non-profit organization formed as a merger of two non-profit organizations — Operation PUSH and the National Rainbow Coalition — founded by Jesse Jackson. The organizations pursue social justice, civil rights and political activism.In December 1971, Jackson resigned from...
    
     Coalition, plead guilty to theft of $1.2 million in federal grant money.
32. Susan Rosenberg
    Susan Rosenberg
    Susan Lisa Rosenberg is an American radical political activist, author and advocate for social justice and prisoners' rights. Rosenberg was active in many radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s...
    
    
33. Kalmen Stern
34. Cory Stringfellow
35. Carlos Anibal Vignali
    Carlos Vignali
    Carlos Anibal Vignali had his federal prison sentence commuted by President of the United States Bill Clinton just prior to leaving office, as a part of a group of commutations and pardons. At the time, he was serving the 6th of 15 years in prison for organized cocaine trafficking. Carlos Vignali's...
    
     - convict
    Convict
    A convict is "a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court" or "a person serving a sentence in prison", sometimes referred to in slang as simply a "con". Convicts are often called prisoners or inmates. Persons convicted and sentenced to non-custodial sentences often are not termed...
    
    ed of cocaine
    Cocaine
    Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system, an appetite suppressant, and a topical anesthetic...
    
     trafficking.
36. Thomas Wilson Waddell III
37. Harvey Weining
38. Kim Allen Willis
39. Kemba Smith

Pardons

1. Verla Jean Allen (1990 false statements to an agency
   Government agency
   A government or state agency is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an intelligence agency. There is a notable variety of agency types...
   
    of the United States).
2. Nicholas M. Altiere (1983 importation of cocaine
   Cocaine
   Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system, an appetite suppressant, and a topical anesthetic...
   
   )
3. Bernice Ruth Altschul (1992 money laundering
   Money laundering
   Money laundering is the process of disguising illegal sources of money so that it looks like it came from legal sources. The methods by which money may be laundered are varied and can range in sophistication. Many regulatory and governmental authorities quote estimates each year for the amount...
   
    conspiracy)
4. Joe Anderson Jr. (1988 income tax evasion
   Tax evasion
   Tax evasion is the general term for efforts by individuals, corporations, trusts and other entities to evade taxes by illegal means. Tax evasion usually entails taxpayers deliberately misrepresenting or concealing the true state of their affairs to the tax authorities to reduce their tax liability,...
   
   )
5. William Sterling Anderson (1987 defraudment of a financial institution, false statements to a financial institution, wire fraud
   Wire fraud
   Mail and wire fraud is a federal crime in the United States. Together, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341, 1343, and 1346 reach any fraudulent scheme or artifice to intentionally deprive another of property or honest services with a nexus to mail or wire communication....
   
   )
6. Mansour Azizkhani (1984 false statements in bank loan applications)
7. Cleveland Victor Babin Jr. (1987 using the U.S. mail service to defraud)
8. Chris Harmon Bagley (1989 conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine)
9. Scott Lynn Bane (unlawful distribution of marijuana)
10. Thomas Cleveland Barber (issuing worthless checks)
11. Peggy Ann Bargon (violation of the Lacey Act
    Lacey Act
    The Lacey Act of 1900, or more commonly The Lacey Act is a conservation law introduced by Iowa Rep. John F. Lacey. Protecting both plants and wildlife by creating civil and criminal penalties for a wide array of violations, the Act most notably prohibits trade in wildlife, fish, and plants that...
    
    , violation of the Bald Eagle Protection Act)
12. David Roscoe Blampied (possess with intent to distribute cocaine)
13. William Arthur Borders Jr. (conspiracy to corruptly solicit and accept money in return for influencing the official acts of a federal district court judge (Alcee L. Hastings), and to defraud the United States in connection with the performance of lawful government functions, corruptly influencing, obstructing, impeding and endeavoring to influence, obstruct and impede the due administration of justice, and aiding and abetting therein, and traveling interstate with intent to commit bribery)
14. Arthur David Borel (odometer rollback)
15. Douglas Charles Borel (odometer rollback)
16. George Thomas Brabham (making a false statement or report to a federally insured bank)
17. Almon Glenn Braswell
    Almon Glenn Braswell
    Almon Glenn Braswell was an American business owner who founded Gero Vita International Inc. He is most noted for being one of the 140 people pardoned in the Bill Clinton pardons controversy of January 2001.-False treatment for baldness:...
    
     (1983 mail fraud and perjury
    Perjury
    Perjury, also known as forswearing, is the willful act of swearing a false oath or affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to a judicial proceeding. That is, the witness falsely promises to tell the truth about matters which affect the outcome of the...
    
    )
18. Leonard Browder (illegal dispensing of controlled substance and Medicaid fraud)
19. David Steven Brown (securities fraud and mail fraud)
20. Delores Caroylene Burleson, aka Delores Cox Burleson (possession of marijuana)
21. John H. Bustamante (wire fraud)
22. Mary Louise Campbell (unauthorized use and transfer of food stamps)
23. Eloida Candelaria (false information in registering to vote)
24. Dennis Sobrevinas Capili (filing false statements in alien registration)
25. Donna Denise Chambers (intent to distribute cocaine)
26. Douglas Eugene Chapman (bank fraud)
27. Ronald Keith Chapman (bank fraud)
28. Francisco Larois Chavez (aiding and abetting illegal entry of aliens)
29. Henry Cisneros
    Henry Cisneros
    Henry Gabriel Cisneros is a politician and businessman. A Democrat, Cisneros served as the 10th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the administration of President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997...
    
     (former HUD
    United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
    The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, also known as HUD, is a Cabinet department in the Executive branch of the United States federal government...
    
     Secretary
    United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
    The United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is the head of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, a member of the President's Cabinet, and thirteenth in the Presidential line of succession. The post was created with the formation of the Department of Housing...
    
    )
30. Roger Clinton, Jr.
    Roger Clinton, Jr.
    Roger Cassidy Clinton is an American actor and musician and the half-brother of former President Bill Clinton.Roger Clinton was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas , the son of Virginia Clinton Kelley and Roger M...
    
     (cocaine charges, half-brother of President
    President
    A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...
    
     Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
    
    )
31. Stuart Harris Cohn (illegal sale of commodity options)
32. David Marc Cooper (conspiracy to defraud the government)
33. Ernest Harley Cox Jr. (defraud of federally insured savings and loan)
34. John F. Cross Jr. (embezzlement)
35. Rickey Lee Cunningham (intent to distribute marijuana)
36. Richard Anthony De Labio (mail fraud)
37. John Deutch (former Director of Central Intelligence Agency
    Central Intelligence Agency
    The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...
    
    )
38. Richard Douglas (false statements to a government agent)
39. Edward Downe, Jr.
    Edward Downe, Jr.
    -Biography:Downe graduated from the University of Missouri’s Missouri School of Journalism in 1952. He worked in a variety of capacities at two Virginia newspapers before joining True magazine. In 1954, he left True to become an editor at the rival magazine Argosy; he later moved into...
    
     (wire fraud, false income tax returns and securities fraud)
40. Marvin Dean Dudley (false statements)
41. Larry Lee Duncan
42. Galen R. Elmore (convicted of cattle theft)
43. Robert Clinton Fain
44. Marcos Arcenio Fernandez
45. Alvarez Ferrouillet
46. Henry O. Flipper - guilty of "conduct unbecoming an officer" (1882)
47. William Dennis Fugazy
48. Lloyd Reid George
49. Louis Goldstein
50. Rubye Lee Gordon
51. Pincus Green
    Pincus Green
    Pincus Green is an American oil and gas commodities trader whose net worth is estimated by Forbes magazine at $1.2 billion USD. Green fled the United States in 1983, along with partner Marc Rich, after being indicted by U.S...
    
    
52. Robert Ivey Hamner
53. Samuel Price Handley
54. Woodie Randolph Handley
55. Jay Houston Harmon
56. Rick Hendrick
    Rick Hendrick
    Joseph Riddick Hendrick III , better known as Rick Hendrick, is the current owner of the American NASCAR team, Hendrick Motorsports and founder of the Hendrick Automotive Group and Hendrick Marrow Program. He attended Park View High School in South Hill, Virginia, and began his career in auto...
    
    
57. John Hummingson
58. David S. Herdlinger
59. Debi Rae Huckleberry
60. Warren C. Hultgren Jr.
61. Donald Ray James
62. Stanley Pruet Jobe
63. Ruben H. Johnson
64. Linda Jones
65. James Howard Lake
66. June Louise Lewis
67. Salim Bonnor Lewis
68. John Leighton Lodwick
69. Hildebrando Lopez
70. Jose Julio Luaces
71. James Timothy Maness
72. James Lowell Manning, (1982, aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false corporate income tax return)
73. John Robert Martin
74. Frank Ayala Martinez
75. Silvia Leticia Beltran Martinez
76. John Francis McCormick
77. Susan H. McDougal
    Susan McDougal
    Susan McDougal is one of the few people who served prison time as a result of the Whitewater controversy although fifteen individuals were convicted of various federal charges...
    
    
78. Howard Mechanic
    Howard Mechanic
    Howard Lawrence Mechanic was an undergraduate student at Washington University in St. Louis who went into hiding for 28 years after being accused of throwing a cherry bomb at the university's ROTC building during a Vietnam War protest in May 1970....
    
    
79. Brook K. Mitchell Sr.
80. Samuel Loring Morison
    Samuel Loring Morison
    Samuel Loring Morison is a former American intelligence professional, who was convicted of espionage and theft of government property in 1985, and pardoned in 2001...
    
    
81. Charles Wilfred Morgan III
82. Richard Anthony Nazzaro
83. Charlene Ann Nosenko
84. Vernon Raymond Obermeier
85. Miguelina Ogalde
86. David C. Owen
87. Robert W. Palmer
88. Kelli Anne Perhosky
89. Richard H. Pezzopane
90. Orville Rex Phillips
91. Vinson Stewart Poling Jr.
92. James G. Powell
93. Norman Lyle Prouse - Former Captain for Northwest Airlines
    Northwest Airlines
    Northwest Airlines, Inc. was a major United States airline founded in 1926 and absorbed into Delta Air Lines by a merger approved on October 29, 2008, making Delta the largest airline in the world...
    
    , imprisoned for flying while intoxicated.
94. Willie H.H. Pruitt Jr.
95. Danny Martin Pursley Sr.
96. Charles D. Ravenel
97. William Clyde Ray
98. Alfredo Luna Regalado
99. Ildefonso Reynes Ricafort
100. Marc Rich
     Marc Rich
     Marc Rich is an international commodities trader and entrepreneur. He is best known for founding the commodities company Glencore. He was indicted in the United States on federal charges of illegally making oil deals with Iran during the late 1970s-early 1980s Iran hostage crisis and tax evasion...
     
     
101. Howard Winfield Riddle
102. Richard Wilson Riley Jr. (Cocaine and marijuana charges, father was Clinton's Education Secretary)
103. Samuel Lee Robbins
104. Joel Gonzales Rodriguez
105. Michael James Rogers
106. Anna Louise Ross
107. Dan Rostenkowski
     Dan Rostenkowski
     Daniel David "Dan" Rostenkowski was a United States Representative from Illinois, serving from 1959 to 1995. Raised in a blue-collar neighborhood on the Northwest Side of Chicago, Rostenkowski rose to become one of the most powerful legislators in Washington. He was a member of the Democratic Party...
     
      - former Democratic
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      Congressman
     United States House of Representatives
     The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
     
      convicted in the Congressional Post Office scandal
     Congressional Post Office Scandal
     The Congressional Post Office scandal refers to the discovery of corruption among various Congressional Post Office employees and members of the United States House of Representatives, investigated 1991–1995, climaxing in the conviction of House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan...
     
     .
108. Gerald Glen Rust
109. Jerri Ann Rust
110. Bettye June Rutherford
111. Gregory Lee Sands
112. Al Schwimmer
113. Albert A. Seretti Jr.
114. Patricia Campbell Hearst Shaw
     Patty Hearst
     Patricia Campbell Hearst , now known as Patricia Campbell Hearst Shaw, is an American newspaper heiress, socialite, actress, kidnap victim, and convicted bank robber....
     
     
115. Dennis Joseph Smith
116. Gerald Owen Smith
117. Stephen A. Smith
118. Jimmie Lee Speake
119. Charles Bernard Stewart
120. Marlena Francisca Stewart-Rollins
121. Fife Symington III
     Fife Symington III
     John Fife Symington III is an American businessman and the former Governor of the U.S. state of Arizona from 1991 until his resignation in 1997.-Background:...
     
      - former Republican
     Republican Party (United States)
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      Arizona
     Arizona
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      governor
122. Richard Lee Tannehill
123. Nicholas C. Tenaglia
124. Gary Allen Thomas
125. Larry Weldon Todd
126. Olga C. Trevino
127. Ignatious Vamvouklis
128. Patricia A. Van De Weerd
129. Christopher V. Wade
     Chris Wade
     Christopher "Chris" Wade is a former Whitewater real estate broker. He is currently retired, and his son Chris Wade, Jr. is the broker/owner of Ozarks Realty Company in Flippin, Akansas....
     
     
130. Bill Wayne Warmath
131. Jack Kenneth Watson
132. Donna Lynn Webb
133. Donald William Wells
134. Robert H. Wendt
135. Jack L. Williams
136. Kavin Arthur Williams
137. Robert Michael Williams
138. Jimmie Lee Wilson
139. Thelma Louise Wingate
140. Mitchell Couey Wood
141. Warren Stannard Wood
142. Dewey Worthey
143. Rick Allen Yale
144. Joseph A. Yasak
145. William Stanley Yingling
146. Phillip David Young
147. Keith Sanders
148. Darren Muci
149. John Scott (not a full pardon)
150. Amy Ralston Pofahl (drug money laundering, distribution and manufacturing Ecstacy)