Thursday, December 08, 2011

Theodore Roosevelt signed 82 Presidential Vetoes in his eight years.

Forty-two regular vetoes, forty pocket vetoes and only one was overridden.
Veto Number 881 on April 4, 1902. (click title to entry - thank you)
S. 4363 : Granting the Central Arizona Railway Company right-of-way for railroad purposes through San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserve. The veto message was laid before the Senate, referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and printed as S. Doc. No. 315. (35 Cong. Rec. 4578).