About
The Cactus Jack Foundation invest in our youth through the support of Positive Behavior Interventions and supports programs at UCISD and other local schools. By providing incentives to reward positive behaviors, the foundation works to create an environment that is conductive to successful learning opportunities for students so they can meet their educational needs.
The Cactus Jack Foundation invest in our youth through the support of Positive Behavior Interventions and supports programs at UCISD and other local schools. By providing incentives to reward positive behaviors, the foundation works to create an environment that is conductive to successful learning opportunities for students so they can meet their educational needs.
Our Purpose
The mission of the Uvalde Cactus Jack Foundation is to enhance the community by investing in our youth through the support of Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports programs at UCISD and other local schools By providing incentives to reward positive behaviors, the foundation works to create an environment that is conductive to successful learning opportunities for students so they can meet the educational needs of UCISD and become productive members of the community.
Who is
CACTUS JACK?
John Nance Garner, also known as “Cactus Jack” served as the 32nd United States Vice President from 1933 to 1941 under Franklin D. Roosevelt.
After playing semiprofessional baseball and receiving his Texas State bar in 1890, he went on to serve two terms in the state legislature from 1898 to 1902, before being elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he remained for 30 years (1903–33). As a congressman, Garner was especially expert at backstage maneuvering to expedite legislation.
Garner has been referred to as one of the most effective vice presidents in history. After his retirement from politics, he moved back to Uvalde, Texas. He had served in politics a total of forty-six years, twenty-seven of them in Congress, “spanning from the horse and buggy days to the rocket age,” it was said of him.
