Coke Stevenson
Coke Robert Stevenson (March 20, 1888 – June 28, 1975) was a Texas Democrat who served as the state's House Speaker, lieutenant governor, and governor from 1941 to 1947 (the last person to hold all three offices). He is known for his "defeat" in the 1948 Senate election where then-U.S. Representative Lyndon B. Johnson stole the race in the primaries with the help of Abe Fortas and George Parr in the "Ballot Box 13" issue.
Stevenson later supported numerous Republican candidates. His grandson, Andrew Murr of Junction, is a Moderate Republican former state representative, notable for his being the head of the House General Investigating Committee during the 88th Legislature, which led to both the expulsion of Representative Bryan Slaton (the first expulsion of a House member in nearly a century) and the current Paxton impeachment (only the third in Texas history, and the first in nearly five decades). Paxton, however, defeated the impeachment in the state Senate.
Stevenson spent his retirement at his 15,000-acre ranch at Telegraph, near Junction in Kimble County, Texas, where he was eventually buried.
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