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Coke Robert Stevenson

Coke R. Stevenson

Full Name: Coke Robert Stevenson
Date of birth: March 20, 1888
Date of death: June 28, 1975

Terms of Service

Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 86 Jan 12, 1937 - Jan 10, 1939 45th   Democrat Junction / Kimble   Bandera, Crockett, Edwards, Kerr, Kimble, Mason, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton
H 86 Jan 8, 1935 - Jan 12, 1937 44th   Democrat Junction / Kimble Speaker   Bandera, Crockett, Edwards, Kerr, Kimble, Mason, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton
H 86 Jan 10, 1933 - Jan 8, 1935 43rd (1)   Democrat Junction / Kimble Speaker   Bandera, Crockett, Edwards, Kerr, Kimble, Mason, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton
H 86 Jan 13, 1931 - Jan 10, 1933 42nd   Democrat Junction / Kimble   Bandera, Crockett, Edwards, Kerr, Kimble, Mason, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton
H 86 Jan 8, 1929 - Jan 13, 1931 41st   Democrat Junction / Kimble   Bandera, Crockett, Edwards, Kerr, Kimble, Mason, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton

Terms of service footnotes


(1) Lawyer. Questionnaire on name, postoffice, occupation, association membership, and relationship to persons in state or county government. 10/11/1933, pp. 588-601. House Journal. ↩

Terms of Service

Legislatures:
45th  
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Junction / Kimble
Counties in district:
Bandera, Crockett, Edwards, Kerr, Kimble, Mason, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton

Legislatures:
44th  
Leadership role:
Speaker
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Junction / Kimble
Counties in district:
Bandera, Crockett, Edwards, Kerr, Kimble, Mason, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton

Legislatures:
43rd (1)  
Leadership role:
Speaker
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Junction / Kimble
Counties in district:
Bandera, Crockett, Edwards, Kerr, Kimble, Mason, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton

Legislatures:
42nd  
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Junction / Kimble
Counties in district:
Bandera, Crockett, Edwards, Kerr, Kimble, Mason, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton

Legislatures:
41st  
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Junction / Kimble
Counties in district:
Bandera, Crockett, Edwards, Kerr, Kimble, Mason, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton

Terms of service notes


(1) Lawyer. Questionnaire on name, postoffice, occupation, association membership, and relationship to persons in state or county government. 10/11/1933, pp. 588-601. House Journal. ↩

Biographical Information

  • Biography in LRL collection, 923.2764 ST48. Coke R. Stevenson: A Texas Legend, 1976.
  • STEVENSON, COKE ROBERT (1888-1975). Governor of Texas. Handbook of Texas Online.
  • Biographical sketch, "Who's Who and What's What in the Texas Legislature," by Ed Kilman, 1/8/1929, p. 5. Houston Post-Dispatch.
  • Biographical sketch, Houston Post-Dispatch, 1/8/1929, page 5, column 4, "Who's Who and What's What in the Texas Legislature," by Ed Kilman, C.R. Stevenson. Memo File.
  • Biography in the LRL Rare Books collection, 923.2764 ST48M 1947. Mister Texas: The Story of Coke Stevenson, 1947.
  • Relatives: H. Grady Perry and Coke Stevenson - Brothers-in-law. Oral history interviews available in Oral History Collection, University of North Texas. Oral History Collection, University of North Texas
  • 31st Lieutenant Governor, 53rd Speaker of the House of Representatives: Coke Robert Stevenson. Photo and biographical sketch. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016, 2016.
  • Memorial, November 1975, p. 967. Texas Bar Journal.

  • Mentioned in "Under the Dome," 1/20/1931, p. 8. Austin American.
  • Mentioned in "Speaker's Office Now a Prize Plum," 9/15/1980. Dallas Morning News.
  • Coke Robert Stevenson, birth date 3/20/1888 in Texas; death date 6/28/1975 in San Angelo, Tom Green County; rancher. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1977.
  • Coke Robert Stevenson, burial in Stevenson Family Ranch Cemetery, Telegraph, Kimble County. Find a Grave.
  • Governor of Texas 1941-1947. Legislative Reference Library, Governors of Texas, 1846-present.
  • Occupational and biographical information - 45th Legislature, Chapter 1, "The Big Job," pp. 1-17. The Legislature and the Texas People, 1937.
  • "My Search for Coke Stevenson," 2/3/1991. First man in the state's history to hold all three of its highest offices: Speaker, Lieutenant Governor, and Governor. New York Times.
  • Coke Stevenson's "record of holding the three top offices in state government - speaker of the house, lt. governor, and governor - still stands." "Stevenson Buried on His Hill Country Ranch," 7/1/1975. San Angelo Standard-Times.
  • Relatives: Andrew Murr is grandson of former Governor Coke R. Stevenson. "Homestead: Patriarch Fought for Texas Independence," 12/1/2012. San Angelo Standard-Times.
    • Selected newspaper articles

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