존 낸스 가너

소개

존 낸스 가너 4세(John Nance Garner IV, 1868년 11월 22일 ~ 1967년 11월 7일)은 "캑터스 잭"(Cactus Jack)이라는 별명으로 알려진 미국의 변호사, 정치인이며, 제32대 부통령 을 지냈다. 그 직무로 올라가기 전에 가너는 1898년부터 1902년까지 텍사스주의 민주당 대표를 지냈다.

John Nance Garner III, known among his contemporaries as "Cactus Jack", was the 32nd vice president of the United States, serving from 1933 to 1941 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A member of the Democratic Party, Garner served as the 39th speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933, having been a U.S. representative from Texas from 1903 to 1933. Garner and Schuyler Colfax are the only politicians to have served as presiding officers of both chambers of the U.S. Congress as speaker of the House and vice president of the United States. He was the longest-lived vice president in U.S. history, dying at the age of 98.