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John N. Garner (1933–1941) John Nance Garner was born on November 22, 1868, in Red River County, Texas. As a young man, he worked odd jobs and played semipro baseball before departing for Tennessee, where he spent a semester at Vanderbilt University. Health problems prompted him to move back to Texas, where he studied law and continued to ...
11. Mai 2018 · John Nance Garner. The thirty-second vice-president of the United States, John Nance "Cactus Jack" Garner (1868-1967) was a wily Texas politician and master of the legislative process. He was also the most powerful man in Congress when he chose to join Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the Democratic ticket for the 1932 presidential election.
John Nance Garner (1868-1967), a Texas Democrat popularly known as “Cactus Jack,” presided over the House of Representatives and the Senate. After becoming Speaker of the House in 1931, he ran for president in 1932, but instead accepted the vice presidency alongside Franklin Roosevelt. Although he gave up the powerful Speaker’s gavel for ...
John Nance Garner. John Nance „Cactus Jack” Garner (ur. 22 listopada 1868 w Detroit, Teksas, zm. 7 listopada 1967 w Uvalde) – amerykański polityk, działacz Partii Demokratycznej, 31. wiceprezydent USA, a przedtem wieloletni (1903-1933) kongresmen ze stanu Teksas (w Izbie Reprezentantów pełnił m.in. funkcję lidera mniejszości i ...
John Nance Garner on the Vice Presidency—In Search of the Proverbial Bucket. By Patrick Cox, Ph.D. When it comes to commentary about the office of vice president of the United States, no statement is more repeated than John Nance Garner’s observation that the office "is not worth a bucket of warm spit."
Featured on the first floor of the Briscoe-Garner Museum is the permanent exhibition Cactus Jack of Texas: The Life and Career of John Nance Garner, which details the remarkable life and career of Garner, the most powerful vice president in U.S. history and the second most powerful politician in the U.S. during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
The film Cactus Jack: Lone Star on Capitol Hill is a 2016 documentary that highlights the life and work of John Nance “Cactus Jack” Garner (1868-1967) who made his way from Blossom Prairie, Texas to the Vice Presidency of the United States. Garner’s 38-year Congressional career culminated in his tenure as Speaker of the House from 1931 ...
