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May 24, 2018 · Another factor troubling both Funston and U.S. Congressman John Nance Garner (who later served as Franklin Roosevelt’s vice president) was the seeming ease with which the raiders were able to cross the border, seldom challenged or hindered by Carrancistas. As Funston saw it, the insurgents were operating with Carranza’s tacit approval, if ...
Signature. John Nance Garner III (November 22, 1868 – November 7, 1967), known among his contemporaries as " Cactus Jack ", was an American Democratic politician and lawyer from Texas. He served as the 39th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933 and as the 32nd vice president of the United States under ...
The district's best-known Representative was John Nance Garner, who represented the district from its creation in 1903 until 1933, and was Speaker of the House from 1931 to 1933. He ran with Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 and 1936 presidential campaigns, and was elected Vice President of the United States, serving from 1933 to 1941.
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Democratic Party. Role In: New Deal. John Nance Garner (born Nov. 22, 1868, Red River county, Texas, U.S.—died Nov. 7, 1967, Uvalde, Texas) was the 32nd vice president of the United States (1933–41) in the Democratic administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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The remarkable life and career of John Nance “Cactus Jack” 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, began in Red River County on November 22, 1868.
May 19, 2021 · May 19, 2021. Texas Legends #2: John Nance Garner. Texas was admitted to the union in 1845, but the role of Texans in presidential administrations was compromised by their aligning with the Confederacy as well as the Republican dominance of the presidency from 1869 to 1933.
He worked to keep San Antonio out of the new Fifteenth District, which covered all of south Texas from Corpus Christi on the Gulf of Mexico, south to Brownsville, and west to Del Rio on the Rio Grande. Garner later termed the district simply as “the biggest in Texas.”
