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144 so far.  Here is a list for each president (from Answers):

Here is a list of US presidents and the number of executive orders each has signed. The president with the most executive orders was FDR with 3,522.


Barack Obama - 144 (so far)
George W. Bush - 291
Clinton - 364
George Bush - 166
Reagan - 381
Carter - 320
Ford - 169
Nixon - 346
Johnson - 325
Kennedy - 214
Eisenhower - 484
Truman - 907
Franklin D. Roosevelt - 3,522
Hoover - 968
Coolidge - 1,203
Harding - 522
Wilson - 1,803
Taft - 724
Theodore Roosevelt - 1,081
McKinley - 185
Cleveland II - 140
Harrison - 143
Cleveland I - 113
Arthur - 96
Garfield - 6
Hayes - 92
Grant - 217
Andrew Johnson - 79
Lincoln - 48
Buchanan - 16
Pierce - 35
Fillmore - 12
Taylor - 5
Polk - 18
Tyler - 17
Harrison - 0
van Buren - 10
Jackson - 12
Adams - 3
Monroe - 1
Madison - 1
Jefferson - 4
Adams - 1
Washington - 8

Colleen

WASHINGTON — President Obama has issued a form of executive action known as the presidential memorandum more often than any other president in history — using it to take unilateral action even as he has signed fewer executive orders.

A rose by another name.........executive action and presidential memorandums are the same. Just one is more transparent than the other and by law must be listed on the federal registry. Can you guess which one? ;)