John Nance Garner, IV

1868 - 1967  (98 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 5 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	John Nance Garner  [1, 2, 3]
  "Cactus Jack"
  Suffix	IV
  Birth	22 Nov 1868	Detroit, Red River Co, Texas, USA   [1, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Nov 1967	Uvalde, Uvalde Co, Texas, USA   [1, 3]
  Siblings	6 Siblings
  + 1. John Nance Garner, IV,   b. 22 Nov 1868, Detroit, Red River Co, Texas, USA d. 7 Nov 1967, Uvalde, Uvalde Co, Texas, USA  (Age 98 years) ▻ Mariette Elizabeth "Ettie" Rheiner,  m. 25 Nov 1895 + 2. James Roe "Jim" Garner,   b. 18 Nov 1871, Detroit, Red River Co, Texas, USA d. 15 Feb 1905, Detroit, Red River Co, Texas, USA  (Age 33 years) ▻ Florence Ophelia Dickey + 3. Lee Ellen Garner,   b. 10 Feb 1874, Detroit, Red River Co, Texas, USA d. 10 Jun 1902, Detroit, Red River Co, Texas, USA  (Age 28 years) ▻ Dr. John Coleman Stiles + 4. Julia Garner,   b. 17 Sep 1877, Detroit, Red River Co, Texas, USA d. 29 Mar 1953, Detroit, Red River Co, Texas, USA  (Age 75 years) ▻ John R. Wright + 5. Sarah "Maude" Garner,   b. 26 Jun 1880, Detroit, Red River Co, Texas, USA d. 1 Feb 1967, Red River Co, Texas, USA  (Age 86 years) ▻ Thaddeus Blair,  m. 1913 + 6. Jesse L. "Jess" Garner,   b. 22 Oct 1883, Detroit, Red River Co, Texas, USA d. 27 Jan 1942, Red River Co, Texas, USA  (Age 58 years) ▻ Ruth C. Cox + 7. Jolly Garner,   b. 24 Dec 1885, Detroit, Red River Co, Texas, USA d. 14 Apr 1934, Detroit, Red River Co, Texas, USA  (Age 48 years) ▻ Myrtle Ritchie
  Person ID	I100929	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	25 Oct 2014

  
  

  Father	John Nance Garner, III,   b. 1845, Rutherford County, Tennessee, USA d. 31 Oct 1919, Detroit, Red River Co, Texas, USA (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Sarah Jane Guest,   b. 30 May 1851, Detroit, Red River Co, Texas, USA d. 20 Sep 1932, Red River Co, Texas, USA (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	3 May 1866	Red River Co, Texas, USA
  Family ID	F40453	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mariette Elizabeth "Ettie" Rheiner,   b. Abt 1872   d. 1948 (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	25 Nov 1895  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Tully Garner,   b. 24 Sep 1896   d. Abt 1967 (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F40458	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

• Notes

  - Vice President of the United States, 1932-40. - Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1931, Congressman 1903-1933. - Known as "Cactus Jack". Vigorously opposed organized Labor. - Read law in Clarksville, TX, & began practicing in Uvalde in 1890. - Acquired the Uvalde Leader in lieu of a legal fee. - Reputation as newspaper editor led to app't & election as county judge in Uvalde - Two terms in the Texas House of Representatives. - One of only two men in US history to serve as both Vice President & Speaker. - Expert at backstage maneuvering to get legislation passed. - Applied persuasion & good whiskey, which he called "striking a blow for liberty" - Favorite son presidential candidate of Texas, supported FDR . - Accepted VP nomination reluctantly. Not comfortable with the "New Deal." - Broke with FDR over the latter's plan to pack the Supreme Court. REF: George Wolfskill, University of Texas at Arlington: John Nance Garner, (1868-1967), American political leader, who was elected VICE PRESIDENT after serving 30 years in the U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Born near Detroit, Texas, on Nov. 22, 1868, Garner read law in Clarksville, Texas, and began practice in Uvalde, Texas, in 1890. He acquired the Uvalde Leader in lieu of a legal fee and his reputation as a newspaper editor led to his appointment and reelection as county judge of Uvalde county. After two terms in the Texas House of Representatives, Garner moved to the U.S. House in 1903, serving until 1933. In 1931 he was elected Speaker. "Cactus Jack," as his friends called him, was an expert at backstage maneuvering to get legislation passed. He often invited colleagues to his office where he applied persuasion and good whiskey, a technique he called "striking a blow for liberty." Garner, the favorite son presidential candidate of Texas, made possible the nomination of Franklin D. ROOSEVELT in 1932 by releasing his Texas and California delegates. Garner then accepted the vice presidential nomination reluctantly. Though elected vice president with Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936, Garner was never comfortable in the NEW DEAL, which he regarded as too liberal. He finally broke with Roosevelt over the latter's plan to "pack" the Supreme Court in 1937. In 1940, Garner ran unsuccessfully against Roosevelt for the presidential nomination. Garner might have been a serious presidential candidate had he not been so vigorously opposed by representatives of organized labor. Labor leader John L. Lewis once characterized Garner as "a labor-baiting, poker-playing, whiskey-drinking, evil old man." When he left Washington in 1941, Garner retired to Uvalde. He made and kept a vow never to go east of the Potomac River again. He died in Uvalde on Nov. 7, 1967. REF: "Garners of Texas A Personal History" by Bascom N. Timmons, Harper & Bros. Publishers, New York, avail. at San Augustine (TX?) Public Library & Houston, Harris Co, TX library: John Nance Garner was only one of two men (the other being President U.S. Grant's Vice President Schuyler Colfax) to serve as both Speaker of the House & as Vice President.

  
  

• Sources

  [S382] Jackson, Ronald Vernon, (R.G. & Associates, certified genealogists ,). [S201] Bascon N. Timmons, Garners of Texas: A Personal History, (Harper & Bros. Publishers, New York , , Repository: Houston, Harris Co, TX Public Library). [S202] John Denison, Descendants of John Nance Garner II & Rebecca Walpole Garner, (Rt 1, Box 90, Bogata, TX 75417, on display at John Nance Garner Museum, Uvalde, TX, sent to J.H. Garner by Lera Powell , , Repository: Denison's phone: 903/632-4964).