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John Nance Garner III (November 22, 1868 – November 7, 1967), known among his contemporaries as "Cactus Jack", was the 32nd vice president of the United States, serving from 1933 to 1941, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
John Nance Garner 38th United States Capitol Joseph Taylor Robinson U.S. Senator, Senate Majority Leader: January 20, 1941 Henry A. Wallace: 39th John Nance Garner Vice President of the United States January 20, 1945 Harry S. Truman: 40th White House: Henry A. Wallace Vice President of the United States January 20, 1949 Alben W. Barkley: 41st
The first inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt as the 32nd president of the United States was held on Saturday, March 4, 1933, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 37th inauguration, and marked the commencement of the first term of Franklin D. Roosevelt as president and John Nance Garner as vice ...
— John Adams With his pithy statement, Adams set a tone for how insiders viewed the vice presidency. John Nance Garner, a coarse Texan who was a vice president under Franklin Roosevelt ...
FDR had little interest in Vice Presidents, churning through three of them in office, with one, John Nance Garner, concluding, “The Vice Presidency is not worth a bucket of warm piss.”
The second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt as president of the United States was held on Wednesday, January 20, 1937, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 38th presidential inauguration and marked the commencement of the second term of Franklin D. Roosevelt as president and John Nance Garner as ...
John Nance Garner famously quipped that the vice presidency "is not worth a bucket of warm spit!" Yet despite that less than glowing description from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first ...
As Roosevelt refused to commit to either retiring or seeking reelection [b] during his second term, supporters of Wallace and other leading Democrats such as Vice President John Nance Garner and Postmaster General James Farley laid the groundwork for their presidential campaigns in the 1940 election. [51]