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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."
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 ...
31. Aug. 2021 · Garner, John Nance (1868–1967). John Nance (Cactus Jack) Garner, the thirty-second vice president of the United States, the first of thirteen children of John Nance and Sarah (Guest) Garner, was born on November 22, 1868, in a log cabin near Detroit, Texas. He went to school at Bogata and Blossom Prairie.
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.
25. Jan. 2022 · His first vice president, John Nance Garner III, was so fiercely opposed to FDR’s policies and his idea of running for an unprecedented third term that Garner entered the 1940 race to be ...
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 ...
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.
