John Nance Garner

John Nance "Cactus Jack" Garner (1868-11-22 – 1967-11-07) was a Representative from Texas, the thirty-second Vice President of the United States and the forty-forth Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

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• "Not worth a bucket of warm piss.", Describing the office of Vice President http://www.nndb.com/people/358/000054196/

• "I gave up the second most important job in Government for eight long years as Roosevelt's spare tire.", Saturday Evening Post, 1963-11-02, quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, p. 52, entry 1051, About giving up the speakership to become Vice President