Charles Curtis
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Charles Curtis was the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 under President Herbert Hoover. He was the Senate Majority Leader from 1924 to 1929. An enrolled citizen of the Kaw Na
Curtis in 1931
Portrait by C. M. Bell c. 1893–1894
Senator Curtis (right) with President Coolidge and First Lady Grace Coolidge on their way to the Capitol building on Inauguration Day, March 4, 1925
Portrait by Harris & Ewing c. 1929–1933
John Nance Garner
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John Nance Garner III, 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. A member of t
Charles Curtis
…Curtis and Hoover ran together again later that year during the Great Depression, they lost when the public gave the Democrats Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner a landslide victory. Curtis remains the highest-ranking Native American who ever served in the federal government. He is also the most recent officer…
Portrait, c. 1930s
Portrait by C. M. Bell, 1903
Speaker Garner meets with Bonus Army Commander Walter W. Waters, July 1932
Garner in the 1930s