Election Results: Vice President-Elect

Mr.: Hurry up!

Mrs.: I need a little more time.

Mr.: Oh, just put an X after each Democrat.

Mrs.: I’ll do my own voting!

Thus John Nance Garner & wife at the schoolhouse poll near their home election morning. They had started out an hour early by mistake, walked back home to wait, and now Mr. Garner was impatient. He had marked ballot No. 13 with scarcely a glance at it.

That night, as the nation hummed with the news of Franklin Roosevelt’s reelection, newshawks in Texas remembered that the Vice President was also winning. Reaching for their telephones, they called the Garner home in Uvalde. “I’m sorry,” answered the operator, “but they have stopped answering the telephone.” In the midst of the greatest landslide since 1820, John Nance Garner slept as usual.