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He was the son of Robert Milton and Virginia Hurley Stevenson, who named him after Thomas Coke, a Methodist bishop. As a teenager he went into the business of hauling freight. In 1913 Coke Stevenson became President of the First National Bank in Junction, Texas. He served as Kimble County Attorney from 1914 to 1918, and Kimble County Judge from 1919 until 1921. In 1928 he was elected to the Texas House of Representatives and served there from 1929 until 1939, when he was elected Lieutenant Governor. He succeeded to the Governorship on August 4, 1941, when Governor W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel resigned to take his seat in the U.S. SenateThe United States Senate is the upper house of the United States Congress, smaller than the U. House of Representatives. Together, they compose the legislative branch of the United States government. Seal of the Senate Each state elects two senators throu, which he won in a special election. Stevenson was reelected in 1942 and 1944, and when he left the governorship in January 1947 he was the longest-serving governor in the history of Texas. He ran for the Senate in 1948 and was defeated by Congressman Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon Baines Johnson ( August 27, 1908 January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ was an American politician. After serving a long career in U. legislatures, Johnson became the Vice President under John F. Kennedy ( 1961 1963) and later ascended to the by 87 votes. He became disenchanted with the Democratic Partylogo depicts a stylized donkey in red, white, and blue. The Democratic Party is one of the two major United States political parties. The Party is currently the minority in both the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, as w following his defeat. Coke Stevenson died in 1975.

Stevenson was a major figure in the second volume of Robert CaroRobert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is a U. biographer, who has written voluminous studies of city planner Robert Moses and United States President Lyndon Johnson. In 1957, Caro graduated with a degree in English from Princeton, where he was managin's biography of Lyndon Johnson, covering the disputed 1948 election for the senate. Some observers have expressed Caro's characterization of Stevenson, believing him to be portrayed in an overly heroic manor, as a contrast to Johnson.