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John Nance Garner III (November 22, 1868 – November 7, 1967), known among his contemporaries as "Cactus Jack", was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 32nd vice president of the United States from 1933 to 1941 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The 1935 State of the Union address was given by the 32nd president of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the 74th United States Congress.Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker, Jo Byrns, accompanied by John Nance Garner, the vice president, in his capacity as the president of the Senate. [1]
However, when Curtis and Hoover ran together again in 1932 during the Great Depression, they lost as the public gave the Democrats Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner a landslide victory that year. Curtis remains the highest-ranking enrolled Native American who ever served in the federal government. He is also the most recent officer of ...
John Nance Garner, a coarse Texan who was a vice president under Franklin Roosevelt, supposedly said the job itself wasn't worth a pitcher of warm spit. Some historians believe Garner actually ...
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]
John Nance Garner: 37th Charles Curtis Vice President of the United States January 20, 1937 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 ...
Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker, Jo Byrns, accompanied by John Nance Garner, the vice president, in his capacity as the president of the Senate. This was the first State of the Union Address to be held in the evening. [ 1 ]
At the time, Vice President John Nance Garner supported federal intervention to break up the Flint Strike, but this idea was rejected by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The president urged GM to recognize a union so the plants could re-open. GM obtained a second injunction against the strike on February 2, 1937.