Franklin D. Roosevelt Executive Orders

Executive Orders, Proclamations, Memoranda
Issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945
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1933-- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Executive Orders

6073- Reopening of Banks. Embargo on Gold Payments and Exports, and Limitations on Foreign Exchange Transactions continued
6080 - Authorizes appointment of bank conservators
6084 - Consolidating Federal Farm credit agencies
6086 - Establishment of the Rio Grande Wild Life Refuge.
6092 - Veterans Regulation No. 4, Protected Awards
6093-Veterans Regulation No. 5, Entitlement to Emergency Officers' Retired Pay
6098 - Veterans Regulation No. 10, Miscellaneous Provisions
6099 -Veterans Regulation No. 11, Disclosure of Information and Furnishing Copies of Records.
6100- Veterans Regulation No. 12, Presumption of Entitlement to Pensions for Spanish-War Veterans and Certain Widows Children, and Dependent Parents of Deceased World War Veterans.
6101 - Civilian Conservation Corps.
6102 - Forbidding the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion and gold certificates.
6111-Transactions in foreign exchange are permitted under Governmental Supervision
6145 - Consolidation of government agencies by the President
6156 - Veterans Regulation No. 1 (a), Entitlement to pensions
6157 - Veterans Regulation No. 3 (a), Schedule for rating disabilities
6158 -Veterans Regulation No. 9 (a), Payment of burial expenses of deceased war veterans
6159 - Veterans Regulation No. 10 (a), Miscellaneous provisions
6161 -Conservation and development of the natural resources of the Tennessee River drainage basin
6166 - Reorganization of executive agencies generally.
6173 - Order appointing administrator and recovery board
6174 -Organization of Public Works Administration is Established Naval construction
6182 - N.I.R.A. Administration over certain farm products transferred to Department of Agriculture
6198 - Appointment of Harold L. Lckes as Administrator of Public Works
6199 -Regulation of Interstate Commerce of Petroleum 6202a- Order creating executive council
6203 - Postmasters under the Civil Service
6204 -Power given to the Secretary of the Interior to Enforce the Preceding Order
6204a - NRA (National Recovery Administration) Code for the Rayon Weaving Industry
6204b - NRA Code for the Throwing Industry
6205a - Delegation of Certain Presidential Powers to the Administrator for Industrial Recovery
6205b - Exceptions and Exemptions from Codes
6205c - NRA Code for the Silk Manufacturing Industry
6206b- NRA Code for the Cotton Thread Industry
6209 - Delegation of Presidential Powers to the Secretary of the Interior Relating to Subsistence Homesteads
6216 - NRA Code for the Shipbuilding and Shiprepairing Industry
6221a- NRA Code for the Wool Textile Industry
6225 - Establishment of a Central Statistical Board
6228 - Transfer of national cemeteries and parks from the War Dept. to the Interior Dept, interpreted.
6229 - Veterans Regulation No. 1 (b), Entitlement to pensions.
6230 - Veterans Regulation No. 2 (a), Effective dates of awards of disability and death pensions; Provisions for filing claims; Review of presumptive claims by special review boards.
6231 - Veterans Regulation No. 3 (b), Schedule for rating disabilities.
6232- Veterans Regulation No. 6 (a), Eligibility for domiciliary or hospital care, including medical treatment.
6233 - Veterans Regulation No. 7 (a), Eligibility for medical care.
6234 - Veterans Regulation No. 10 (b), Miscellaneous provisions
6240 - Office of Economic Adviser to National Emergency Council
6242a - NRA Code for the Coat and Suit Industry
6242b - NRA Code for the Electrical Manufacturing Industry
6246 - Code Compliance Made a Condition for Government Purchases
6248 - NRA Code for the Corset and Brassiere Industry
6249 - NRA Code for the Lace Manufacturing Industry
6250 - NRA Code for the Legitimate Theatrical Industry
6251- Federal Power Commission Designated as an agency of the Public Works Administration
6252 - Functions, Powers and Regulations of the Public Works Administration
6253 - NRA Code for the Fishing Tackle Industry
6254 - NRA Code for the Iron and Steel Industry
6255 - NRA Code for the Lumber and Timber Products Industry
6256 - NRA Code for the Petroleum Industry.
6260 - Hoarding, export, and earmarking of gold coin, bullion or currency, and transactions in foreign exchange.
6261 - Forces domestic gold producers to sell their output to Secretary of the Treasury
6340 - Formation of the Community Credit Corporation.
6354 - Regulations to Exempt Minor Business Enterprises in Small Towns from the President's Reemployment Agreement.
6355 - Regulations Limiting Effect of N.R.A. Codes upon Cooperative Organizations
6359 - Receipt on consignment of gold by the United States mints and assay offices
6420B - Creating Civil Works Administration
6433A- Creation of the National Emergency Council
6443 - Authorization to Modify or Make Exceptions in the President's Reemployment Agreement to Avoid Hardships
6470 - The Creation of the Public Works Emergency Housing Corporation
6474 - Establishment of the Federal Alcohol Control Administration
6511 - Powers of the National Labor Board are Increased
6513 - Adding the Members of the Special Industrial Recovery Board to the National Emergency Council
6514 - Authorization to the Electric Home and Farm Authority
JUL9 - NRA Code for the Cotton Textile Industry

1933-- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Speeches

1933-- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Presidential Proclamations

p2038 - Calling for a special session of Congress to meet on March the 9th
p2039 - Bank Holiday, March 6-9, 1933, Inclusive
p2040 - Continuing in force the bank holiday proclamation of March 6, 1933
p2047 - Creation of a board to settle railroad dispute
p2065 - The President Proclaims the Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment
p2067 - Ratifying the London Agreement on Silver
p2068 -Christmas Amnesty Proclamation for Certain War-time Offenders Who Have Completed their Prison Sentences
p2070 -The Restoration of Non-Member banks to the Jurisdiction of their own state banking authorities
p2092- Proclamation on the coinage of silver

Other: Congressional Actions

ACT33- March 9, 1933. to provide relief in the existing national emergency in banking, and for other purposes

1934-- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Executive Orders

6547- Veterans Regulation No. 2 (b), Effective dates of awards of disability and death pensions; Provisions for filing claims; Review of presumptive claims by special review boards.
6556- Amendment to executive order of August 28, 1933 (E.O. 6260 - Hoarding, export, and earmarking of gold coin, bullion or currency, and transactions in foreign exchange)
6560 - Prescribed regulations for the investigation, regulation, and prohibition of transactions in foreign exchange, transfers of credit between or payments by banking institutions, and export of currency or silver coin by persons within the United States or subject to its jurisdiction.
6565 - Veterans Regulation No. 1 (c), Entitlement to pensions.
6566-Veterans Regulation No. 6 (b), Eligibility for domiciliary or hospital care, including medical treatment.
6567- Veterans Regulation No. 9 (b), Payment of Burial expenses of Deceased War Veterans.
6568 - Veterans Regulation No. 10 (c), Miscellaneous Provisions.
6581 - The Export-Import Bank of Washington is Created.
6591 - The Army Temporarily Flies the Mail.
6606 -Veterans Regulation No. 2 (c), Effective dates of awards of disability and death pensions; Provisions for filing claims; Review of presumptive claims by special review boards.
6611 - Transfer of the Bureau of Mines to the Department of the Interior was authorized effective April 23.
6623 - The Federal Employment Stabilization Board was abolished and the Federal Employment Stabilization Office established in the Department of Commerce.
6632 - The National Recovery Review Board is created to investigate monopolistic codes.
6638 - Export-Import Bank of Washington, DC
6646 - The Government Does Business Only with Those Complying with N.R.A.Codes. (Note: Text incomplete)
6651 - The Office of Special Adviser to the President on Foreign Trade is Created (Note: (Text incomplete)
6661 - Veterans Regulations No 1 (d), Entitlement to pension)
6662 -Veterans Regulation No. 12 (a), Presumption of Entitlement to Pensions for Spanish-War Veterans and Certain Widows, Children and Dependent Parents of Deceased World War Veterans.
6668 - Veterans Regulation No. 1 (e), Entitlement to Pension.
6669 -Veterans Regulation No. 12 (b), Presumption of entitlement to pensions for Spanish-War Veterans and certain widows, children and dependent parents of deceased World War Veterans.
6675A- Code of Fair Competition for the Live Poultry Industry of the metropolitan area in and about the City of New York.
6693 - Committee on National Land Problems
6695 -Veterans Regulation No. 9 (c), Payment of Burial Expenses of Deceased War Veterans.
6715- Filing of functional organization charts with the Director of the Bureau of the Budget.
6750- The procedure for notice and hearing on any proposed Reciprocal Trade Agreement.
6750C- Federal Committee on Apprenticeship
6757-The Initiation of studies to archive a program of national social and economic security (Adoption of the Social Security Act of 1935)
6763-Creation of the first National Labor Relations Board (Note: Text incomplete)
6766-A Typical Act of Protection and Conservation of Wild Life by Providing Suitable Refuges.
6770 - The Industrial Emergency Committee is Created.
6775 -Veterans Regulation No. 6 (c), Eligibility for domiciliary or hospital care, including medical treatment.
6777 - The National Resources Board is Established.
6793 - Appropriating funds "for the planting of forest protective strips in the Plains region as a means of ameliorating drought conditions"
6814 - The Government Requires the Delivery of all silver to the United States for coinage (Note: Text incomplete)
6840 - Textile Industry, Board of Inquiry for the Cotton.
6859 - N.R.A. is Reorganized -- The National Industrial Recovery Board is Established
6877 - Wool Textile Work Assignment Board
6889A- Consolidation of the National Emergency Council, the Executive Council and the Industrial Emergency Committee.

6910-Withdrawal of Public Lands to be Used for Conservation and Development of Natural Resources
6917-Creating a body corporate to be known as Federal Prison Industries, Inc

1934-- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Presidential Proclamations

p2072-Fixing the Weight of the Gold Dollar (Note: Text incomplete)

1935-- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Executive Orders

6963 - Veterans Regulation No. 10 (d), Miscellaneous provisions
6967 - Veterans Regulation No. 1 (f), Entitlement to pensions
6979 -The Secretary of the Interior is designated to carry out the oil regulation prescribed by the Congress.
6989 - Veterans Regulation No. 1 (g), Entitlement to pensions
6990 -Veterans Regulation No. 2 (d), Effective dates of awards of disability and death pensions; Provisions for filing claims; Review of presumptive claims by special review boards.
6992 - Veterans Regulation No. 10 (e), Miscellaneous provisions
7027 - The Resettlement Administration is established.
7028 - Transfer of Land Program F.E.R.A. to the Resettlement Administration
7034 - The Creation of Machinery for the Works Progress Administration
7037 - Establishment of the Rural Electrification Administration
7041 -Transfer of subsistence Homesteads Activities to the Resettlement Administration. (Note: Text incomplete)
7057 - Establishment of the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration
7064 -The Powers of the Administrator of Public Works under N.I.R.A. Are Continued (Note: Text incomplete)
7065 - The National Resources Committee is Created
7073 -The National Emergency Council is Reestablished (Note: Text incomplete)
7074-The National Labor Relations Board is Reestablished (Note: Text incomplete)
7075-N.R.A. is Reorganized after the Supreme Court Decision (Note: Text incomplete)
7076 -The Activities of N.R.A. Remaining after the Supreme Court Decision are Extended
7086 -The National Youth Administration is established (Note: Text incomplete)
7120 -Reorganization of Consumers' Agencies (Note: Text incomplete)
7126-Submission of Estimates to the Bureau of the Budget of Expenditures for Administrative Expenses in Certain Cases (Note: Text incomplete)
7139-The Jurisdiction of the Electronic Home and Farm Authority is Extended
7150-Amendment of Executive Order No. 7126 of August 5, 1935 (Extending effect to additional agencies of order requiring submission of estimates of expenditures to Bureau of the Budget)
7170 - Opened the Lower Souris River National Wildlife Refuge
7174 -Amendment of Executive Order No 7126 of August 5, 1935 (extending effect to additional agencies of order requiring submission of estimates of expenditures to Bureau of the Budget)
7193 -Coordinator for Industrial Cooperation

1936-- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Executive Orders

7298 - Division of the Federal Register of the National Archives duties of numbering the Executive orders and proclamations and of supervising their promulgation, publication, and distribution
7323 -Creating the Committee of Industrial Analysis (Note: Text incomplete)
7397 -Federal Fire Council
7421 - The President Places Postmasters under Civil Service Regulation
7464 - Extending certain periods of trust on Indian lands
7496 - Transfer of recreational demonstration projects
7521 - Use of vessels for ice-breaking operations in channels and harbors

1937-- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Executive Orders

7640 -The Bituminous Coal Code
7709A- Abolishing the National Emergency Council
7711 - Appointing the Administrator of the Unemployment Census
7732 - Federal Housing Projects
7776 - Extending the National Emergency Council

1938-- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Executive Orders

7916 - The Competitive Classified Civil Service is Extended
7998 -An Interdepartmental Committee on Printing and Processing is Established
8034 - Real Estate Board, Federal

1938-- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Presidential Proclamations

p2282 - Proclamation No. 2092 on the Coinage of Silver is Revoked
p2309 - Postage rates on books are reduced

1939-- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Executive Orders

8057 -Transfer of certain lands from the Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary of the Interior Virginia
8099 -Administration of benefits provided by act of Congress approved April 3, 1939
8185 -Administration of the Foreign Service under Reorganization Plan No. II
8233 - Regulations governing enforcement of neutrality of the United States
8234-Regulations governing passage and control of vessels through Panama Canal in any war in which the United States is neutral
8246 - Protection of American citizens abroad
8248-Establishing the divisions of the executive office of the President and defining their functions and duties

1939-- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Presidential Proclamations

p2352 -Proclaiming a national emergency in connection with the observance, safeguarding, and enforcement of neutrality and the strengthening of the national defense within the limits of peace-time authorizations

1940-- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Executive Orders

8357 - Administration of the Foreign Service
8389-Regulating transactions in foreign exchange and foreign-owned property, providing for the reporting of all foreign-owned property
8407 - Withdrawal of public land in aid of flood control, Louisiana
8512-Regulations pertaining to budgetary administration and financial reporting
8526-Coordinating the electrical facilities of Grand Coulee Dam Project and Bonneville Project
8530 - Calling Out the National Guard
8533 -Designating the Secretary of the Treasury to act in respect of any bonds, notes, or other securities acquired on behalf of the United States under the provisions of the Transportation Act, 1920, as amended
8546 - Defense Communications Board
8568 - Establishing the St. Lawrence River Advisory Committee

1940-- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Presidential Proclamations

p2425 - Selective Service Registration.

1941-- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Executive Orders

8629-Office of Production Management and the Office for Emergency Management
8632 - Division of Defense Housing Coordination
8680-Establishing naval defensive sea areas around and naval airspace reservations over the islands of Kiska and Unalaska
8682 -Establishing naval defensive sea areas around and naval airspace reservations over the islands of Palmyra, Johnson, Midway, Wake, and Kingman Reef
8716 -National Defense Mediation Board
8734 -Office of Price Administration
8743 - Extending the classified civil service
8751 - Division of Defense Aid Reports
8757 - Office of Civilian Defense
8773 -Seizure of the North American Aviation Company Plant at Inglewood, California
8785 - Freezing the Assets of Certain European Countries
8802-Reaffirming policy of full participation in the defense program by all persons, regardless of race, creed, color, or national origin, and directing certain action in furtherance of said policy
8807 - Office of Scientific Research and Development
8809 - Good Conduct Medal
8832 - Freezing Japanese and Chinese Assets in the United States
8839 - Economic Defense Board
8840 - Establishing the Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
8843 - Directing the Federal Reserve Board to Curb Installment Purchasing
8875 - Supply Priorities and Allocations Board
8890 - Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services
8922 -Office of Facts and Figures
8926 - Office of Lend-Lease Administration
8929 - Transferred the Coast Guard to Navy Department control
8964 - Use and control of radio stations and preference or priority of communications
8983 - Establishing a Commission to Investigate the Pearl Harbor Attack
8984 - Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet, and Chief of Naval Operations Duties
8985 - Establishing the Office of Censorship
8989 -Office of Defense Transportation
9001 - Establishing Methods for Wartime Procurement

1941-- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Presidential Proclamations

p2487 -Proclaiming that an unlimited national emergency confronts this country, which requires that its military, naval, air and civilian defenses be put on the basis of readiness to repel any and all acts or threats of agrression directed toward any part of the western hemisphere
1941-- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Speeches
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech
The Four Freedoms, delivered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on January 6, 1941

Other:

1942-- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Executive Orders
9017 - Establishing the National War Labor Board
9024 - War Production Board Established
9054 - Establishing the War Shipping Administration
9066-Authorizing the secretary of war to prescribe military areas (Internment of Japanese Americans) (Note: A doc file is provided for this EO, see EO9066.DOC)
9069 - Agricultural Marketing Administration
9070 - National Housing Agency
9078 - Army Specialist Corps
9080 - Joint Mexican-United States Defense Commission
9082 - Reorganizing the Army and the War Department
9083 - Transferred Bureau of Marine Inspection temporarily to the Coast Guard under Navy Department control
9094-Abolishing the Board of Surveys and Maps and authorizing the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to perform its functions
9095 - Office of the World War II Alien Property Custodian
9096 - Reorganizing the Navy Department and the Naval Service
9102-Provide for the removal from designated areas of persons whose removal is necessary in the interests of national security
9112 - Authorizing Additional Financing of War Contracts
9125 - Vesting the W.P.B. and O.P.A. with Additional Responsibilities
9139 - War Manpower Commission
9142-Transfer of certain functions, property and personnel from Department of Justice to Alien Property Custodian
9154-Authorizing certain exclusions from the operation of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended
9163 - Establishing the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
9170 - Certain navigation laws made applicable to Virgin Islands
9172 - National Railway Labor Panel
9176 -Transfer of registration functions from the Secretary of State to the Attorney General
9182 - Office of War Information
9204 -Office of Fishery Coordination
9205 - Establishing the President's War Relief Control Board
9246 - Coordination and Control of the Rubber Program
9250 - Economic Stabilization Board
9256 - Terminating the Electric Home and Farm Authority
9260 - Legion of Merit
9265 -American, European-African-Middle Eastern and Asiatic-Pacific campaign medals
9276 - Establishing the Petroleum Administration for War
9280 - Food Production Administration
9285 - Typhus Commission of America

Other:

1943-- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Executive Orders

9300 - Subversive Activities by Federal Employees
9301 - Establishing a Minimum Wartime Work Week of Forty-eight Hours
9310 - Transferring nutrition functions of office of Defense Health and Welfare services to Department of Agriculture
9312 - Office of War Information
9322 -Administration of Food Production and Distribution
9325 - Payment of expenses of the Office of Alien Property Custodian
9327 - Production Areas, Committee for Congested
9328 - Prices and Wages
9338 - Community War Services
9340 - Seizure of Coal Mines
9346 - Establishing a Committee on Fair Employment Practice
9347 - Office of War Mobilization
9357 -Transferring the Functions of the Public Works Administration to the Federal Works Agency
9361 - Establishing the Office of Economic Warfare
9367 - Prohibited, with certain exceptions, instructions of applicants for civil service and foreign service examinations by officers or employees of the government
9370-Action in Connection With the Enforcement of Directives of the National War Labor Board
9383-Coordination of functions and policies of federal civil agencies in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
9396-Authorizing the Secretary of War to Issue Citations in the Name of the President of the United States to Army Units for Outstanding Performance in Action
9412 - Seizure and Operation of the Railroads

1944--Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Executive Orders

9417 - War Refugee Board
9419 - Authorized award of bronze star medal
9424-- Establishment of a register of government interests in patents
9425-Surplus War Property Administration
9432-Designation of Undersecretary and Secretaries of the Interior to act as Secretary of the Interior
9508-Siezure of Montgomery Ward Co. Properties

1934-- Roosevelt, Franklin D. Presidential Proclamations

1934-- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Presidential Proclamations