John Nance Garner

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Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Vice President of the United States human politician

John Nance Garner was an American Democratic politician who served as the 32nd vice president of the United States and a powerful Speaker of the House before that.

Aliases (1)

John Nance Garner III ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Speaker of the United States House of Representatives → Vice President of the United States → human → politician →
ageAtDeath	98 →
birthName	John Nance Garner III →
burialPlace	Uvalde Cemetery →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1868-11-22 →
dateOfDeath	1967-11-07 →
educatedAt	Vanderbilt University (attended briefly) →
familyName	Garner →
givenName	John →
ideology	conservative Democrat →
knownFor	conservative Democratic leadership → influential role in early New Deal era →
memberOfPoliticalParty	Democratic Party →
middleName	Nance →
nickname	Cactus Jack →
notableQuoteAttributed	description of the vice presidency as "not worth a bucket of warm spit" →
occupation	lawyer → politician →
officeNumber	32nd Vice President of the United States →
placeOfBirth	Red River County, Texas → near Detroit, Texas →
placeOfDeath	Uvalde, Texas →
positionHeld	Member of the Texas House of Representatives → Member of the United States House of Representatives → Speaker of the United States House of Representatives → Vice President of the United States →
precededAsSpeakerBy	Nicholas Longworth →
precededAsVicePresidentBy	Charles Curtis →
ranForOffice	Democratic presidential nomination 1932 →
representedDistrict	Texas's 15th congressional district →
residence	Uvalde, Texas →
servedUnder	Franklin D. Roosevelt →
sexOrGender	male →
speakerOf	United States House of Representatives →
speakerTermEnd	1933 →
speakerTermStart	1931 →
spouse	Ettie R. Garner →
stateLegislatureServedIn	Texas House of Representatives →
stateRepresented	Texas →
succeededAsSpeakerBy	Henry T. Rainey →
succeededAsVicePresidentBy	Henry A. Wallace →
usHouseServiceEnd	1933 →
usHouseServiceStart	1903 →
vicePresidentialTermEnd	1941-01-20 →
vicePresidentialTermStart	1933-03-04 →
vicePresidentOf	United States of America →

Referenced by (18)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
1932 United States presidential election → 1936 United States presidential election →	runningMateOfWinner
John Nance Garner ("John Nance Garner III") →	birthName
John Nance Garner →	fullName
Garner →	hasNotableBearer
73rd United States Congress →	hasPresidentOfSenate
1936 United States presidential election →	incumbentVicePresident
Uvalde, Texas →	notablePerson
Ettie R. Garner →	politicalPartnerOf
74th United States Congress →	presidingOfficer
Cactus Jack →	refersTo
76th United States Congress →	senatePresident
Ettie R. Garner →	spouse
Charles Curtis →	succeededByInOffice
Charles Curtis →	succeededInOfficeBy
Ettie R. Garner →	supportedPoliticalCareerOf
Nance →	usedBy
Franklin D. Roosevelt →	vicePresident