Missing Presidential Pardons of Andrew Jackson
7th President of the United States, 1829-1837
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: Zachariah Smith on August 18, 1835
Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Smith was convicted of passing a forged note. Signed by President Andrew Jackson and Secretary of State John Forsyth.