John Garner's Assassination

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He was born in a log cabin near the town of Detroit.He was the son of a cavalryman under general Joseph Wheeler.John entered vanderbilt university at age 18,but only stayed there for one semester. He was the thirty-second vice-president of the united states.He was the most powerful man in congress when he chose to join franklin Delano.Also Garner had his sight set on the house speakership.Then following reelection in 1922,after wich the republicans controlled the house of representatives,Garner became the ranking democrat on the powerful house waves. Garner lived in retirement for 27 years,for outlasting roosevelt and even his protege,that was sam rayburn.Until he died on november 7,1967 days before his