# List of invocations of the Insurrection Act

This is a list of invocations of the Insurrection Act of 1807.
The act has been invoked in response to 30 incidents, the latest of which was the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

## List

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 | Violations continue, act repealed in 1809.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