This is a list of invocations of the Insurrection Act of 1807. [1]
The act has been invoked in response to 30 incidents, the latest of which was the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Date invoked | Invoker | Cause | Results |
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April 19, 1808 | Thomas Jefferson | Violations of the Embargo Act of 1807 around Lake Champlain. [2] | Violations continue, act repealed in 1809. [3] |
February 10, 1831 | Andrew Jackson | Dispute around Arkansas-Mexico border. [4] | Resolved before troops sent. [1] |
August 24, 1831 | Slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. [5] | Rebellion suppressed. [6] | |
January 28, 1834 | Riot over labor dispute in Maryland. [7] | Resolved before troops sent. [7] | |
April 15, 1861 | Abraham Lincoln | Secession of southern states, American Civil War. [8] | Civil war ends after four years. Beginning of Reconstruction era. [9] |
October 17, 1871 [10] | Ulysses S. Grant | White supremacist insurgency across former Confederacy. [11] | Insurgency suppressed. [1] |
May 22, 1873 | Violence in Louisiana after contested election. [12] | Resolved before troops sent. [1] | |
December 21, 1874 | White supremacist insurrection and massacre in Vicksburg. [13] | Insurrection suppressed. [14] | |
May 15, 1874 | White supremacist attempted coup in Arkansas. [15] | Resolved before troops sent. [1] | |
September 15, 1874 | White supremacist insurgency and coup in Louisiana. [16] | New Orleans and state government liberated, insurgency continues in other areas until 1877. [1] | |
October 17, 1876 | White supremacist paramilitaries in South Carolina. [17] | Paramilitaries dispersed, troops stay until 1877. [1] | |
July 18, 1877 | Rutherford B. Hayes | Railroad strike in multiple states. [18] | Strike suppressed. Eventual reform. [19] |
October 7, 1878 | War between rival business/gang factions in Lincoln County, New Mexico. [20] | Most fighting stops. [21] | |
May 3, 1882 | Chester A. Arthur | Gang violence in the Arizona Territory. [22] | Gangs suppressed. [1] |
November 7, 1885; February 9, 1886 | Grover Cleveland | Riots against Chinese citizens in the Washington Territory. Occurred in 1885 and 1886. [23] | Riots suppressed. [23] |
July 8, 1894 | Strike in multiple states. [24] | Strike suppressed. Eventual reform. [25] | |
April 28, 1914 | Woodrow Wilson | Strike and uprising in Colorado. [26] | Strike and uprising suppressed. Eventual reform. [27] |
August 30, 1921 | Warren G. Harding | Strike and uprising in West Virginia. [28] | Strike and uprising suppressed. Eventual reform. [29] |
July 28, 1932 | Douglas MacArthur | Army general invokes act against WWI veterans marching for military bonuses in Washington, D.C. [30] | Protest suppressed. [31] |
June 21, 1943 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Race riot in Detroit. [32] | Riot suppressed. [33] |
September 23, 1957 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Arkansas National Guard forbids black students from a school in Little Rock. [34] | Arkansas National Guard federalized and ordered to stand down. Federal troops escort black students to school. [35] |
September 30, 1962 | John F. Kennedy | Siege and riot of University of Mississippi due to racial integration. [36] | Riot suppressed. [37] |
June 11, 1963 | Governor of Alabama forbids black students from a school in Tuscaloosa. [38] | Alabama National Guard federalized and ordered to stand down. Federal troops escort black students to school. [39] | |
September 10, 1963 | Alabama National Guard forbids black students from all-white schools. [1] | Alabama National Guard federalized and ordered to stand down. | |
March 20, 1965 [40] | Lyndon B. Johnson | Alabamian policemen suppress first Selma to Montgomery marches. [41] | Federalization of Alabama National Guard before the third march. |
July 24, 1967 | Protests and riots in Detroit. [42] | Riots suppressed. [43] | |
April 5, 1968 | Riots and civil unrest in multiple states after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.. [44] | Riots suppressed. [45] | |
November 24, 1987 | Ronald Reagan | Prison riot in Atlanta over announced deportations of Cuban detainees. [46] | Riot suppressed. [47] |
September 20, 1989 | George H. W. Bush | Looting in the United States Virgin Islands after Hurricane Hugo. [48] | Order restored. [49] |
May 1, 1992 [50] | Riots in Los Angeles after the acquittal of policemen who beat Rodney King. [51] | Riot suppressed. [52] |
Last week William Hushka's Bonus for $528 suddenly became payable in full when a police bullet drilled him dead in the worst public disorder the capital has known in years.