Summon: Sitting Presidents & Vice Presidents Who Have Testified Earlier than Congressional Committees [FULL LIST]

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See the record of Sitting Presidents & Vice Presidents Who Have Testified Earlier than Congressional Committees

President Abraham Lincoln¹
Home Judiciary Committee
February 13, 1862

“President Lincoln immediately voluntarily appeared earlier than the Home Judiciary Committee,” reported the New York Tribune, “and gave testimony within the matter of untimely publication within the Herald of a portion of his final annual message.” Lincoln’s message to Congress on December 1861 had been revealed within the New York Herald on the identical morning that it was despatched to Capitol Hill. The Home Judiciary Committee, chaired by John Hickman, investigated the leak and known as Herald correspondent Henry Wikoff to testify. Wikoff refused to reveal his supply, citing “an obligation of strictest secrecy.” Given Wikoff’s shut friendship with Mary Todd Lincoln, many assumed that the correspondent was defending the primary woman. The committee ordered the sergeant at arms to carry Wikoff. Then the president went to the Capitol for a non-public assembly with Judiciary Committee members, to guarantee them that no member of his household was concerned. The following day the committee launched Wikoff.

Vice President Schuyler Colfax
Home Choose Committee to Examine the Credit score Mobilier
January 7, 1873

Vice President Colfax appeared voluntarily earlier than the Home Choose Committee regarding his possession of inventory in Credit score Mobilier, an organization concerned within the development of federally sponsored transcontinental Union Pacific Railroad. Through the earlier presidential marketing campaign, in response to newspaper criticism, Colfax had denied that the railroad’s agent, Congressman Oakes Ames, had given or provided him inventory within the Credit score Mobilier. Earlier than the committee, Colfax testified that he had first agreed to purchase $500 value of inventory from Ames however later determined towards making the acquisition; however that Ames by no means repaid him the $500. Oakes Ames, nevertheless, produced proof of Colfax’s examine to him for $534 and his examine to Colfax for $1,200, the distinction being a 60 p.c money dividend.

President Woodrow Wilson
Senate International Relations Committee
August 19, 1919

Members of the Senate International Relations Committee took testimony from President Wilson on the White Home regarding the treaty of peace with Germany and institution of a League of Nations. The president opened by studying an announcement after which answered questions for 3 and a half hours, after which the president invited them to remain for lunch. Chairman Henry Cabot Lodge defined that the committee was “very desirous of getting info on sure factors which appear not clear and on which they thought info can be of worth to them.” Regardless of Wilson’s efforts, the Senate twice rejected the Treaty of Versailles, and the USA by no means joined the League.

President Gerald R. Ford
Subcommittee on Felony Justice, Home Judiciary Committee
October 17, 1974

President Ford voluntarily appeared earlier than the Subcommittee on the Capitol to elucidate the explanations behind his pardon of former president Richard M. Nixon. Ford insisted that the pardon had not been prearranged, however was the results of his considerations over stories of Nixon’s deteriorating psychological and bodily well being.

Former Presidents Who Have Testified Earlier than Congressional Committees

Theodore Roosevelt
Home Committee on Investigation of the USA Metal Company
August 5, 1911 (Metal trade)

Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections
October 4, 1912 (marketing campaign expenditures)

William Howard Taft²
Home Choose Committee on Finances
October 4, 1919 (Nationwide Finances System)

Senate Committee on the Judiciary
October 5, 1921 (extra judges, Convention of Senior Circuit Judges)

Home Committee on the Judiciary
November 7, 1921 (extra judges, Convention of Senior Circuit Judges)

Home Committee on Army Affairs
January 19, 1922 (Fort Nathan Hale Park)

Home Committee on the Judiciary
March 30, 1922 (Jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Courtroom)

Home Committee on Claims
April 26, 1922 (claims of staff of Bethlehem Metal)

Home Committee on the Judiciary
January 23, 1924 (extra judges for the Eighth Circuit)

Home Committee on the Judiciary
December 18, 1924 (Jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Courtroom)

Home Committee on Claims
March 4, 1926 (award to staff of Minneapolis Metal Co.)

Home Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
Could 1, 1926 (naturalization administration)

Subcommittee of Home Committee on the Judiciary
Could 10, 1928 (creating Tenth Circuit)

Home Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
Could 16, 1928 (Supreme Courtroom constructing)

Harry S. Truman
Senate Committee on International Relations
April 18, 1955 (United Nations Constitution)

Gerald R. Ford
Subcommittee on the Structure, Senate Judiciary Committee
March 1, 1983 (bicentennial of the U.S. Structure)

1. President George Washington testified earlier than all the Senate as regards to Indian treaties on August 22, 1789.

2. Former President William Howard Taft testified earlier than Congress regularly on account of his service as co-chair of the Nationwide Conflict Labor Board throughout World Conflict I and Chief Justice of the USA from 1921 to 1930. The testimony listed right here pertains to laws and claims earlier than Congress however omits the quite a few occasions Taft testified in help of appropriations for the judiciary.

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