Alice Precinct 13 Box 13 Machine Treasury — Jim Wells County

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Alice Precinct 13 Box 13 Machine Treasury — Jim Wells County

Lost Treasure TX • Jim Wells County County
Description
Alice legend of skimmed political-machine cash from the infamous 1948 Box 13 precinct — when Jim Wells County ballot reporting helped Lyndon Johnson win his Senate Democratic primary by eighty-seven votes.
Historical Notes
During the 1948 Democratic senatorial primary, Lyndon Johnson trailed Governor Coke Stevenson until George B. Parr's political machine reportedly arranged for the Alice Precinct 13 ballot box to be "corrected," adding 203 votes for Johnson. Johnson won the nomination by eighty-seven votes; Box 13 became a national symbol of South Texas machine politics. Parr controlled Duval County and extended influence into Jim Wells County for decades. Machine-era folklore often describes emergency caches of cash skimmed from county accounts or payoff funds hidden when federal investigators closed in after the Box 13 scandal. Coordinates mark downtown Alice, county seat of Jim Wells County.
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