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The John Nance Garner House, located in Uvalde, Texas, United States, was the home of American Vice-President John Nance Garner and his wife Ettie from 1920 until Ettie's death in 1948. Garner, a native of Uvalde, lived there until 1952, when he moved to a small cottage on the property and donated the main house to the City of Uvalde as a ...
Garner was born on November 22, 1868, in a mud-chinked log cabin in Red River County, Texas, to John Nance Garner Jr. and Sarah Guest Garner. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] That cabin no longer exists, but the large, white, two-story house where he was raised survives, at 260 South Main Street in Detroit, Texas .
This was the first of four consecutive Depression-era House elections in which Democrats made enormous gains, achieving a cumulative gain of 174 seats. Over the ensuing 64 years (until the 1994 midterm elections ), House Republicans would be in the minority for all but four years, winning majorities only in 1946 and in 1952 .
John Nance Garner [c] Bertrand Snell: Party Democratic: Republican: Leader since March 4, 1929 March 4, 1931 Leader's seat Texas 15th: New York 31st: Last election 216 seats 218 seats Seats won 313 [1] 117 [1] Seat change 97 101 Popular vote 20,585,995: 15,900,829 Percentage 54.48%: 42.08% Swing 9.98% 10.96%
John Nance Garner: Bertrand Snell: Party Democratic: Republican: Leader since March 4, 1929 March 4, 1931 Leader's seat Texas 15th: New York 31st: Last election 216 seats 218 seats [a] Seats won 219: 216 Seat change 3 2 Seats up 5 5 Races won 8: 3
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.
In 1969, it was loaned to the White House as the Oval Office desk for Presidents Nixon and Ford. It was returned in 1977. The Senate purchased the floor clock in 1898 from Washington jewelers Harris and Schafer for $600. Vice President John Nance Garner used it to time his entrance into the Senate chamber. As the chimes rang fifteen seconds ...
Roosevelt ran with Speaker of the House John Nance Garner, a Texas native while Hoover ran with incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis of Kansas. Roosevelt defeated Hoover in Texas by a landslide margin of 76.71%.