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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Texas / USJohn Nance GARNER
(1868-1967)
GARNER, John Nance, a
Representative from Texas and a Vice President of the United
States; born near Detroit, Red River County, Tex., November 22,
1868; had limited educational advantages; studied law, admitted to
the bar in 1890, and commenced practice in Uvalde, Uvalde County,
Tex.; judge of Uvalde County, Tex., 1893-1896; member, State house
of representatives 1898-1902; elected as a Democrat to the
Fifty-eighth and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1903-March 3, 1933); served as minority floor leader (Seventy-first
Congress) and as Speaker of the House of Representatives
(Seventy-second Congress); reelected to the Seventy-third Congress
on November 8, 1932, and on the same day was elected Vice President
of the United States on the ticket headed by Franklin D. Roosevelt;
reelected Vice President in 1936 and served in that office from
March 4, 1933, to January 20, 1941; retired to private life and
resided in Uvalde, Tex., until his death there on November 7, 1967;
interment in Uvalde Cemetery.
Bibliography
Timmons, Bascom. Garner of Texas: A Personal History. New
York: Harper, 1948.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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