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
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1932. Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the Republican ticket of President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Cu
John Nance Garner
…control immediately after the 1930 elections, but lost as several seats shifted parties). Garner sought the Democratic presidential nomination in the 1932 presidential election, but agreed to serve as Roosevelt's running mate at the 1932 Democratic National Convention. He and Roosevelt won the 1932 election and were reelected…
FDR in 1933
President Hoover portrait
Herbert Hoover, the incumbent president in 1932, whose term expired on March 4, 1933
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York