Considering the barrage of vitriolic campaign ads that invaded our homes on a nightly basis during the past year, you might ...

John Nance Garner of Texas was one of the most colorful politicians of the twentieth century. It was Garner who made one of the most oft-repeated comments about the vice presidency. Garner described ...

Last week Vice President John Nance Garner, as round and hard and brown as the pecans he grows on his ranch, packed up his starched collars and his cutaway, helped his quiet secretarial wife into ...

Last Friday, we got a first look at how the closely-divided U.S. House of Representatives may have to operate in 2025.

John Nance Garner as speaker. Going even further back, the 65th Congress (which opened in April 1917) was the last time neither major party held an outright majority on its own: House Democrats ...

Connecticut. No, it's Rhode Island. sorry. And the last question. In the 20th century, Thomas Marshall, John Nance Garner, Hubert Humphrey, Spiro Agnew, and J. Danforth Quayle all held this position.

Longworth had died suddenly in 1931 and due to the deaths of several other GOP congressmen and a series of special elections won by Democrats, John Nance Garner of Texas became Speaker of the House.

These included John Nance Garner, who had a room called “The Board of Education” where many would gather after hours to drink. Liquor would be smuggled past policemen and guards in briefcases.

John W. Bricker was the last major party candidate to run for Vice President from Ohio. Bricker, Ohio’s former senator, ...