John Nance Garner
US Vice President
1868 – 1967
Who was John Nance Garner?
John Nance Garner IV, known among his contemporaries as "Cactus Jack", was an American Democratic politician and lawyer from Texas. He was a state representative from 1898 to 1902, and U.S. Representative from 1903 to 1933. He was the 44th Speaker of the House in 1931–1933. In 1932, he was elected the 32nd Vice President of the United States, serving from 1933 to 1941. A conservative Southerner, Garner opposed the sit-down strikes of the labor unions and the New Deal's deficit spending. He broke with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in early 1937 over the issue of enlarging the Supreme Court, and helped defeat it on the grounds that it centralized too much power in the President's hands.
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- Born
- Nov 22, 1868
Detroit - Spouses
- Mariette Rheiner Garner
(1895/11/25 - )
- Mariette Rheiner Garner
- Ethnicity
- Caucasian race
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Vanderbilt University
- Lived in
- Texas
- Died
- Nov 7, 1967
Uvalde
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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