Illegally Helped Lyndon Johnson Win U.S. Senate Seat
Parr's most infamous act of political corruption was browbeating election officials in nearby Jim Wells County into ensuring the primary victory of Lyndon B. Johnson in the U.S. senatorial election of 1948. The incident went down in Alice, Texas history as "Box 13." This is a reference to the precinct in which the Parr machine created 203 more votes for Johnson, many from allegedly dead Mexican voters.
Johnson received 99.1% of the votes. Before an official investigation was finished, the votes were burned. Johnson's plurality in the 1948 U.S. Senate election was eighty-seven out of a possible one million votes cast.
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