Missing Presidential Pardons of Andrew Johnson
17th President of the United States, 1865-1869
The following pardons were stolen from the National Archives-Philadelphia by Shawn Aubitz in 2002. They were signed by the President of the United States, then docketed and filed by a U.S. District Court in the mid-Atlantic Region. These are not the Presidential Authority to the Secretary of State to Affix the Seal to a Warrant for Pardon.
Pardoned: Joseph Hayes on July 8, 1867
Filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
Hayes was convicted of passing a counterfeit note. Signed by President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward.