His name was John Nance Garner and for 28 years he had ably and shrewdly represented in Congress his State’s 15th district, an area the size of New York State stretching along the Rio Grande ...

Folks in Red River County, Texas, where John Nance Garner was born, have never forgiven Uvalde, where he now lives, for getting the jump on them in starting a Garner-for-President boom in 1931.

John Nance Garner wasn’t one of them, though. Although he served as Franklin Roosevelt’s vice president during FDR’s first two terms, Garner didn’t always agree with the New Deal’s policies.