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TIL in 1893, John Nance Garner won the election for county judge of Uvalde County, Texas against Mariette "Ettie" Rheiner. The electoral opponents then started dating and married in 1895. John Garner would go on to serve as U.S. Vice President from 1933 to 1941.

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