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	John Nance Garner - dKosopedia
		John Nance Garner (1868-1967) was a Representatives from Texas and the thirty-second Vice President of the United States.
		Garner became the unofficial leader of a new coalition of Southern Democrats, Conservative Democrats and Republicans who hoped to impede what they saw as the undemocratic and impractically perverse excesses of FDR and the New Deal.
		Garner scored only 69 delegates at the convention and was replaced on the ticket by Henry A. Wallace, an ardent New Deal Democrat.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/John_Nance_Garner (494 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: GARNER, JOHN NANCE
		John Nance (Cactus Jack) Garner, the thirty-second vice president of the United States, the first of thirteen children of John Nance and Sarah (Guest) Garner, was born on November 22, 1868, in a log cabin near Detroit, Texas.
		In Uvalde Garner joined the law firm of Clark and Fuller and was appointed to fill a vacancy as county judge.
		Garner's early career in the legislature was without distinction, for he spent most of his time listening and examining the legislative process.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/GG/fga24.html (1745 words)

	John Nance Garner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		John Nance "Cactus Jack" Garner (November 22, 1868 –; November 7, 1967) was a Representative from Texas and the thirty-second Vice President of the United States (1933-41).
		Garner was born near Detroit, Red River County, Texas, and was a Cherokee Indian on his father's side.
		Garner, always the character, once described the office of the vice presidency as being "not worth a bucket of warm piss" (at the time reported with the bowdlerization "spit").
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/John_Nance_Garner (820 words)

	Uvalde Convention & Visitors Bureau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The John Nance Garner Museum is a division of the Center for American History, a special collections library, archive, and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.
		The John Nance Garner Museum is dedicated to documenting the remarkable life and career of Texas native son John Nance "Cactus Jack" Garner (1868-1967).* Garner served two terms as Vice President under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
		Garner was the most powerful vice president in U.S. history and the second most powerful politician in the nation during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
	www.visituvalde.com /garnermuseum.htm (346 words)

	John Nance Garner at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Garner, along with the vast majority of Southern Democrats, was essentially a conservative, and was outraged by Roosevelt's continuing liberal policies and imperious manner.
		Interestingly, Garner's campaign chairman was Sam Rayburn, the staunchly liberal Speaker of the House.
		Garner, always the character, once described the office of the vice presidency as being "not worth a bucket of warm piss" (at the time reported sans the bowdlerization "spit") and that his decision to take it in the first place was "the worst damn fool mistake I ever made."
	www.wiki.tatet.com /John_Nance_Garner.html (486 words)

	John Nance Garner Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The John Nance Garner Museum, located in Uvalde, Texas, is one of the four divisions of the University of Texas Center for American History.
		Garner and his wife, Ettie, who had served as his personal secretary during their years in the nation's capital, lived in the two-story brick house on 333 North Park Street in Uvalde until her death in 1948.
		In 1952, Garner donated the structure to the City of Uvalde as a memorial to his late wife, but continued to reside on the property in a small one-story cottage until his death on November 7, 1967.
	www.cah.utexas.edu /divisions/Garner.html (678 words)

	Profile in Tax History: John Nance Garner (Copyright, 2005, Tax Analysts)
		John Nance Garner is best remembered for his assessment of the vice presidency.
		In 1924 Garner launched a Democratic attack on the famous "Mellon Plan," insisting that the secretary's proposal was grossly lopsided.
		Garner mustered a good head of steam in denouncing low exemptions, but he had a peculiar sense of what it meant to be rich in America.
	www.taxhistory.org /thp/readings.nsf/cf7c9c870b600b9585256df80075b9dd/2f0f3e3e24ba8e9f85256f87006a6f67?OpenDocument (1940 words)

	Commemorative Chairs: John Nance Garner
		John Nance Garner, former Vice-President under President Franklin Roosevelt, was born on November 22, 1868 in Blossom Prairie, Texas, the son of a farmer and former cavalry officer in the Confederacy.
		Garner was a close support for President Wilson when the United States entered the First World War.
		Garner, however, was an effective leader, working behind the scenes with Republican Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth to prevent legislative gridlock.
	www.feri.org /kiosk/profile.cfm?QID=2766 (464 words)

	News Release 11/2003: Rededication program will mark reopening of John Nance Garner Museum in Uvalde
		Garner was vice president of the United States during the first two terms (1933-41) of the Franklin Roosevelt administration, and was the first Texan to serve as vice president.
		Garner had been elected to Congress in 1902 and was Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1931-33 He also was the first Texan to serve as Speaker.
		The John Nance Garner Museum is the former home of John and Ettie Garner in Uvalde, the county seat of Uvalde County, 70 miles west of San Antonio.
	www.utexas.edu /opa/news/03newsreleases/nr_200311/nr_cah031117.html (501 words)

	US Vice - Presidents - John Nance Garner
		John Nance Garner, “Cactus Jack” was Vice President during the dark days of the Great depression, and Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.
		Garner’s first attempt at elected office failed when he ran for City Attorney, but he must have caught the eye of the local political machine because in 1893 he was appointed to fill a vacancy as a district Judge.
		Garner’s perseverance finally paid off, and in 1920 he was made a member of the House Ways and Means Committee.
	www.juntosociety.com /vp/jngarner.html (1766 words)

	News Release 4/2002: Life and career of John Nance Garner to be examined during exhibit opening at The University of ...
		Life and career of John Nance Garner to be examined during exhibit opening at The University of Texas at Austin
		The Garner exhibit is in the Lomax Exhibit Gallery of the center’s Research and Collections Division in Sid Richardson Hall.
		The John Nance Garner Museum in Uvalde is a division of the Center for American History.
	www.utexas.edu /news/nr_garner020418.html (512 words)

	CACTUS JACK GARNER: "NOT WORTH A BUCKET OF WARM....."
		John Nance Garner spent his entire adult life working his way up to Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and then gave it up to become Vice President.
		John Nance Garner was the son of a Confederate soldier.
		Where Garner secured his leadership position in the House was at his daily meetings of the "Board of Education." He made enough friends and influenced enough members to get himself elected House Minority Leader in 1929.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/presidents_and_first_ladies/35366 (689 words)

	John Nance Garner Biography / Biography of John Nance Garner Biography
		The thirty-second vice-president of the United States, John Nance "Cactus Jack" Garner (1868-1967) was a wily Texas politician and master of the legislative process.
		It is one of the most revered of US political traditions, but John Nance Garner actually was born in a log cabin near the town of Detroit, Texas, in the northeastern part of the state, on November 22, 1868.
		Upon returning to Texas Garner studied law in the Clarksville, Texas office of Captain M. Simms; he was admitted to the Texas state bar in 1890.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-john-nance-garner (229 words)

	Vice President Bio John Nance Garner
		John Garner was called Cactus Jack and often invited fellow congressmen to his office for drinks and poker
		Garner is most noted for saying the vice presidency wasn't worth "a warm bucket of spit," although reporters allegedly changed the spelling of the last word for print
		Garner had told the president he hoped he would stay in office forever, but Kennedy was killed later that day
	www.usatrivia.com /vpbigarn.html (170 words)

	Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online: Texas Day By Day - March 4, 1933
		Garner served as a county judge and as a state senator before heading for Washington as a congressman in 1903.
		Garner was a master of congressional politics and helped get much of the early New Deal legislation enacted, but he ultimately split with Roosevelt and the liberals over the court-packing plan and the direction of the Democratic party.
		Garner became a leader of the conservative Democrats, and, though he was reelected vice president in 1936, he worked against further New Deal legislation.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /daybyday/03-04-004.html (301 words)

	TPWD: Garner State Park
		History: Garner State Park is 1419.8 acres (10 water acres of the Frio River) of recreational facilities in northern Uvalde County.
		Garner State Park is found in the northern part of Uvalde County.
		Also nearby are John Nance "Cactus Jack" Garner Museum in Uvalde; the ruins of historic Mission Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria del Cañon, founded in 1749; Camp Sabinal (a U.S. Cavalry post and later Texas Ranger camp) established 1856; and Fort Inge, established 1849.
	www.tpwd.state.tx.us /spdest/findadest/parks/garner (789 words)

	Garner Middle School NEISD San Antonio, Texas John Nance Garner Early Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		John Nance Garner IV's grandmother was Rebecca Walpole Garner.
		John IV, their son, was born on November 22, 1868.
		John N. Garner IV, was described as an undersized, blue-eyed, sandy-haired young one, active as a cat and full of the devil.
	www.neisd.net /garner/john_nance_garner_early_life.htm (185 words)

	AllRefer.com - John Nance Garner (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		John Nance Garner 1868–1967, Vice President of the United States (1933–41), b.
		With the shift to Democratic control in 1931 he was elected speaker of the House.
		After 30 years of service in Congress, Garner was in 1932 elected Vice President under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Garner-J.html (221 words)

	Garner, John Nance on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		GARNER, JOHN NANCE [Garner, John Nance] 1868-1967, Vice President of the United States (1933-41), b.
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	encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/G/Garner-J1.asp (379 words)

	Henry A. Wallace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His inauguration took place on January 20, 1941, for the term ending January 20, 1945.
		He immediately set out to counter his predecessor John Nance Garner's characterization of the vice presidency as "not worth a bucket of warm piss".
		John Maze and Graham White, Henry A. Wallace: His Search for a New World Order.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_A._Wallace (1414 words)

	The Daily Texan
		Garner spent the last years of his life in Uvalde, a town two hours west of San Antonio.
		The town is also host to the John Nance Garner Museum, a division of the Center for American History.
		"Garner became one of the most influential political leaders from the Lone Star State in the 20th century, and indeed [one of] the most powerful vice presidents who helped shape the vice presidency into an office of influence and prestige," Cox said.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /media/paper410/news/2002/04/29/StateLocal/Former.Vice.President.Honored.With.Exhibit-501800.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.dailytexanonline.com (360 words)

	Inn of Uvalde - Highlights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		John Nance Garner Home and Museum was built in 1920.
		Aviation Museum of Texas at Garner Field - The Museum is located at the Uvalde municipal airport in one of the original hangars built for Garner Army Air Field, a World War II primary training base.
		Garner State Park - Deep canyons, crystal-clear streams, high mesas, and carved limestone cliffs are the brush strokes in the geologic painting of this intriguing terrain.
	www.innofuvalde.com /highlights.htm (866 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Garner
		Garner, Edith — of Ogden, Weber County, Utah.
		Garner, H. — of Oneonta, Blount County, Ala.
		Garner, Robert H. — also known as Lopaka Garner — of Hawaii.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/garner.html (444 words)

	HoustonChronicle.com - 100 Tall Texans
		JOHN NANCE GARNER (1868-1967) -- John "Cactus Jack" Garner, 32nd vice president of the United States who previously served two years as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, settled in Uvalde in the 1890s.
		First elected to the U.S. House in 1903, Garner was re-elected 15 times, becoming a master political manipulator.
		Garner won a place in history when he described the vice presidency as not being worth "a pitcher of warm spit."
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/special/00/talltx/garner.html (209 words)

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