On this day

Executive orders signed on October 31

Dates here are signing dates — the day the order was signed. An order is printed in the Federal Register some days afterwards, and that later date is not what this page is organised by.

2021

1 order

E.O.14051

Designation To Exercise Authority Over the National Defense Stockpile

Signed October 31, 2021·Joseph R. Biden Jr. (46th)·86 FR 60747

2019

1 order

E.O.13897

Improving Federal Contractor Operations by Revoking Executive Order 13495

Signed October 31, 2019·Donald Trump (45th)·84 FR 59709

2016

1 order

E.O.13745

Delegation of Function to the Director of the Office of Personnel Management

Signed October 31, 2016·Barack Obama (44th)·81 FR 76493

2011

1 order

E.O.13588

Reducing Prescription Drug Shortages

Signed October 31, 2011·Barack Obama (44th)·76 FR 68295

2008

1 order

E.O.13477

Settlement of Claims Against Libya

Signed October 31, 2008·George W. Bush (43rd)·73 FR 65965

1996

1 order

E.O.13022

Administration of the Midway Islands

Signed October 31, 1996·William J. Clinton (42nd)·61 FR 56875

What this record covers

Executive orders only — 1,531 of them, the earliest signed December 30, 1993 and the most recent signed August 10, 2026. Presidential proclamations, memoranda, notices and other presidential documents are not part of it, and neither is anything signed outside those dates.