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
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
Henry A. Wallace
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Henry Agard Wallace was the 33rd vice president of the United States, serving from 1941 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He served as the 11th U.S. secretary of agriculture and the 10th
John Nance Garner
…sought the presidency in the 1940 presidential election, but Roosevelt won the party's nomination at the 1940 Democratic National Convention and chose Henry A. Wallace as his running mate. 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…
Official portrait, 1940
Wallace's father, Henry Cantwell Wallace, served as secretary of agriculture from 1921 to his death in 1924.
Wallace in his office at the Department of Agriculture, 1938
Wallace c. 1940