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John Nance Garner
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Vice President of the United States (1933-1941); a personal connection of Charles Tips who, per Tips' own account, helped save the bank at Three Rivers during the Depression when its president called on Tips for help.
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Why Track This
A real historical figure (U.S. Vice President under FDR) whose brief appearance connects the local Three Rivers bank crisis to national politics.
Current State
Per Tips’ 1971 letter, the Three Rivers bank’s president “knew I was a friend of John Garner, who was Vice-President of the United States and he called on me for help. I had just gotten home on a long automobile drive from North Texas. I stayed up all night and early the next morning got the Vice-President on the phone with his help we saved the Three Rivers Bank.”
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Notes
Single-source (Tips’ own recollection); not independently corroborated within this collection.