John Nance Garner

John Nance Garner IV nicknamed "Cactus Jack" (1868–1967) was the forty-fourth Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1931-33) and the thirty-second Vice President of the United States (1933-41).

John Nance Garner in "Joe Steele"
John Nance Garner IV (1868–1953) was a Representative from Texas, the thirty-second Vice President of the United States (1933-53), and briefly the President. He survived the presidency of Joe Steele by keeping his head down and his mouth shut even as Steele destroyed the American democracy. Upon Steele's death, Garner entered a three-way power struggle which he did not survive.

While Garner was an early candidate for Democratic Presidential nomination in 1932, the two front-runners for the nomination were Joe Steele of California and New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. However, when Roosevelt died in a fire in the governor's mansion (secretly set on Steele's orders), Garner agreed to become Steele's vice president. The ticket won handily.

Garner and Steele were elected to six terms. Throughout those 20 years, Garner realized that he could not stand against Steele as Steele subverted the American system and built a dictatorship. When Steele died in 1953, Garner assumed the office of President. He immediately ordered the deaths of Steele's key allies, the Hammer and GBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. However, Hoover triumphed, and Garner was executed along with the Hammer.