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All of the additional voter names essential to Johnson's nomination were signed in the same blue ink and in the same handwriting. According to the presiding election judge, copies of the voter signatures needed for verification were stolen, amid allegations of fraud. Stevenson long attributed his failure to defeat Johnson for the Senate nomination as “the stuffed ballot box.” In subsequent years, Stevenson supported primarily Republican candidates for national and state office, including U.S. Senator [[Barry Goldwater]] of [[Arizona]], who ran against President Johnson in 1964 and made an especially weak showing in Texas as well as nationwide.

All of the additional voter names essential to Johnson's nomination were signed in the same blue ink and in the same handwriting. According to the presiding election judge, copies of the voter signatures needed for verification were stolen, amid allegations of fraud. Stevenson long attributed his failure to defeat Johnson for the Senate nomination as “the stuffed ballot box.” In subsequent years, Stevenson supported primarily Republican candidates for national and state office, including U.S. Senator [[Barry Goldwater]] of [[Arizona]], who ran against President Johnson in 1964 and made an especially weak showing in Texas as well as nationwide.

Parr blamed the Ballot Box 13 dispute on one of his closest friends, Ed Lloyd,<ref>"Stolen Election: Landslide Lyndon," Today in History, August 28, 1948.</ref> a lawyer in Alice in Jim Wells County who wrote in the additional voter names to the final tally reported to the state Democratic Party. Parr further claimed that Stevenson was himself responsible for his own loss in such a close contest where a few hundred additional votes could have changed the outcome. Parr said that Stevenson's tendency to avoid making appointments to vacant state positions; this policy hurt Stevenson with local voters. Parr and Judge Manuel “Black Hawk” Raymond recommended that Stevenson appoint, E. James “Jimmy” Kazen (1912–2003) of [[Laredo]], as the district attorney for Webb County. Raymond was related to Kazen. In 1944, Kazen was elected to a full term as DA and remained in that position until 1958.<ref>Anthony R. Carrozza, ''The Dukes of Duval County: The Parr Family and Texas Politics,'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma]], 2017), pp. 45-46.</ref> “That’s how come Lyndon Johnson got to be President,” quipped Parr in regard to the senatorial election, which in time provided the opportunity for Johnson to seek the nation’s highest elected office, first in 1960, when he instead became vice president under John F. Kennedy, and again in his only election as president in 1964.<ref>Evan Anders, ''Parr, George Bertram," ''The Handbook of Texas.''</ref>

Parr blamed the Ballot Box 13 dispute on one of his closest friends, Ed Lloyd,<ref>"Stolen Election: Landslide Lyndon," Today in History, August 28, 1948.</ref> a lawyer in Alice in Jim Wells County who wrote in the additional voter names to the final tally reported to the state Democratic Party. Parr further claimed that Stevenson was himself responsible for his own loss in such a close contest where a few hundred additional votes could have changed the outcome. Parr said that Stevenson's tendency to avoid making appointments to vacant state positions; this policy hurt Stevenson with local voters. Parr and Judge Manuel “Black Hawk” Raymond recommended that Stevenson appoint, E. James “Jimmy” Kazen (1912–2003) of [[Laredo]], as the district attorney for Webb County. Raymond was related to Kazen. In 1944, Kazen was elected to a full term as DA and remained in that position until 1958.<ref>Anthony R. Carrozza, ''The Dukes of Duval County: The Parr Family and Texas Politics,'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 2017), pp. 45-46.</ref> “That’s how come Lyndon Johnson got to be President,” quipped Parr in regard to the senatorial election, which in time provided the opportunity for Johnson to seek the nation's highest elected office, first in 1960, when he instead became vice president under John F. Kennedy, and again in his only election as president in 1964.<ref>Evan Anders, ''Parr, George Bertram," ''The Handbook of Texas.''</ref>

Parr was particularly in Johnson’s debt because the congressman in 1946 had urged President [[Harry Truman]] to grant a [[pardon]] to Parr, who had served a nine-month imprisonment in the 1930s for federal income tax evasion. Without the pardon, Parr further claimed that Stevenson was responsible for his own defea  because a few hundred votes would have reversed the outcome. Parr’s political empire seemed to be collapsing. When Parr was convicted again in 1974 for federal income tax evasion and faced a ten-year prison sentence, he committed [[suicide]] on April 1, 1975, at Los Harcones, his Duval County ranch.<ref name=freshs/>

Parr was particularly in Johnson's debt because the congressman in 1946 had urged President [[Harry Truman]] to grant a [[pardon]] to Parr, who had served a nine-month imprisonment in the 1930s for federal income tax evasion. Without the pardon, Parr further claimed that Stevenson was responsible for his own defea  because a few hundred votes would have reversed the outcome. Parr's political empire seemed to be collapsing. When Parr was convicted again in 1974 for federal income tax evasion and faced a ten-year prison sentence, he committed [[suicide]] on April 1, 1975, at Los Harcones, his Duval County ranch.<ref name=freshs/>

Dudley Lynch wrote that had Parr been imprisoned in 1975, “his enemies would have danced ecstatically in the street. But in putting a .45 caliber slug through his brain, he had turned his exodus into a triumph.” Duval County turned out in big numbers for Parr’s funeral; some 150 cars stretched for a mile while awaiting the service.50 Incidentally, George Parr and Coke Stevenson died three months apart in 1975; Lyndon Johnson had succumbed two years earlier in retirement at Stonewall in Gillespie County. As his presidential ambitions developed in the 1950s, Johnson tried to distance himself from any association concerning George Parr.<ref>Anders, ''Boss Rule in South Texas,'' p. 10.</ref><ref name=freshs/>

Dudley Lynch wrote that had Parr been imprisoned in 1975, “his enemies would have danced ecstatically in the street. But in putting a .45 caliber slug through his brain, he had turned his exodus into a triumph.” Duval County turned out in big numbers for Parr's funeral; some 150 cars stretched for a mile while awaiting the service.50 Incidentally, George Parr and Coke Stevenson died three months apart in 1975; Lyndon Johnson had succumbed two years earlier in retirement at Stonewall in Gillespie County. As his presidential ambitions developed in the 1950s, Johnson tried to distance himself from any association concerning George Parr.<ref name=freshs/><ref>Anders, ''Boss Rule in South Texas,'' p. 10.</ref>

In 1954, Parr was elected as the Duval County [[sheriff]].

In 1954, Parr was elected as the Duval County [[sheriff]].