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>https://spartacus-educational.com/NDcharles_marsh.htm
I'll give you this.
LBJ stole the election against Coke Stevenson (Mr. Texas) to become the Senator. The rest is history. Robert Caro does a better job on him than me. I concentrate on the crimes.
In 1948, Stevenson was a candidate the U.S. Senate in the regular election. He led the Democratic primary with 39.7% to 33.7% against Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson of Austin. A third candidate was George Peddy of Houston, originally from Shelby County in East Texas, who had been a write-in candidate for the Senate in 1922 but was defeated by Democratic nominee Earle Bradford Mayfield.[6] With the top two finishers advancing to a runoff election, Peddy and several minor candidates were eliminated from contention.
In the hotly contested runoff between Stevenson and Johnson, Johnson won by only 87 votes out of 988,295 cast – one of the closest results in a senatorial election in U.S. history.[7] (As there was only a weak Republican Party in Texas at the time, winning the Democratic primary was tantamount to election.)
Stevenson challenged the result on the grounds of ballot stuffing alleged to have occurred in a single precinct, which involved 203 disputed votes from Jim Wells County.[2] The Democratic State Central Committee sustained Johnson's apparent victory by a 29–28 vote. Stevenson was granted an injunction by the federal district court, which barred Johnson from the general election ballot. However, Supreme Court Associate Justice Hugo Black, sitting as a circuit justice, ruled that the federal district court lacked jurisdiction, and that the question was for the Central Committee to decide.[8] He ordered the injunction stayed, and his ruling was upheld by the Supreme Court.[9]