Garner, John Nance

Garner, John Nance, a Representative from Texas and a Vice President of the United States; born near Detroit, Red River County, Tex., November 22, 1868; had limited elementary educational advantages; studied law in Clarksville, Tex.; was admitted to the bar in 1890 and commenced practice in Uvalde, Uvalde County, Tex.; judge of Uvalde County, Tex., 1893-1896; member of the State house of representatives 1898-1902; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1900, 1916, and 1924; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1933); served as minority floor leader in the Seventy-first Congress and as Speaker in the Seventy-second Congress; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress on November 8, 1932, and on the same day was elected Vice President of the United States on the ticket headed by Franklin D. Roosevelt; resigned from the Seventy-third Congress on March 3, 1933; reelected Vice President in 1936 and served in that office from March 4, 1933, to January 20, 1941; retired to private life and is a resident of Uvalde, Tex.