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Vice President John Nance Garner

Vice President John Nance Garner

It's Cactus Jack's Birthday Today

Jonathan Crow November 22, 2014

Happy Birthday to John Nance Garner AKA "Cactus Jack." He was the Speaker of the House before becoming vice president and the job was something a let down. Garner described the role of the vice president as being "not worth a bucket of warm piss." When FDR decided to run for an unprecedented third term, Garner campaigned against him, hoping to get the job of president himself. He failed, making him the first VP to date to run against a sitting president. Not surprisingly, he was dropped from the ticket.

JFK called him in 1963 to wish him a happy birthday just hours before he was shot. Garner died in 1967, just shy of his 99th birthday, making him the longest lived VP in history. You can get a print of Garner here.

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