Haha Barkley, he has the ignominy of being to last incumbent VP to run who failed to get the nomination. Loser!
Garner was probably the last conservative democrat to be a serious candidate for President, you could argue he was to the right of GOP nominee Wilkie. Broke with Delawhore Roosevelt, decent guy AFAIK, other than his typical southron democrat racism.
All this talk makes me think of this: http://youtu.be/fgIsUiT2dug
Which makes me think of Walter Mondale.