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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
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    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

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