Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1931-1933.
Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1929-1931.
U.S. Representative from Texas, 1903-1933.
Member of the Texas State house of representatives, 1898-1902.
Judge of Uvalde County, Texas, 1893-1896.
Candidate for Democratic presidential nomination, 1932, 1940.
In retirement from public life, raised chickens, grew pecans and pursued real estate, ranching and banking interests in and around Uvalde, Texas.
Received a "happy birthday" telephone call from President John F. Kennedy from the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth on the morning of November 22, 1963, the day he turned 95 years old. President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas a few hours later.
Dying just 15 days shy his 99th birthday, he is the longest-lived U.S. Vice-President to date.
On February 15, 1933, then President-elect Franklin Roosevelt had an assassination attempt on his life. If Roosevelt had gotten assassinated, then Vice-President-elect Garner would be the one to be sworn in as the President on inauguration day.
Is one of only two men to have served as both U.S. Vice-President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, the other is Schuyler Colfax.