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Dukes of Duval County - The Parr Family and Texas Politics (Hardcover)
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Dukes of Duval County - The Parr Family and Texas Politics (Hardcover)
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The notorious Parr family manipulated local politics in South Texas
for decades. Archie Parr, his son George, and his grandson Archer
relied on violence and corruption to deliver the votes that
propelled their chosen candidates to office. The influence of the
Parr political machine peaked during the 1948 senatorial primary,
when election officials found the infamous Ballot Box 13 six days
after the polls closed. That box provided a slim eighty-seven-vote
lead to Lyndon B. Johnson, initiating the national political career
of the future U.S. president. Dukes of Duval County begins with
Archie Parr's organization of the Mexican American electorate into
a potent voting bloc, which marked the beginning of his
three-decade campaign for control of every political office in
Duval County and the surrounding area. Archie's son George, who
expanded the Parrs' dominion to include jobs, welfare payments, and
public works, became a county judge thanks to his father's
influence - but when George was arrested and imprisoned for
accepting payoffs, only a presidential pardon advocated by
then-congressman Lyndon Johnson allowed George to take office once
more. Further legal misadventures haunted George and his successor,
Archer, but in the end it took the combined force of local, state,
and federal governments and the courageous efforts of private
citizens to overthrow the Parr family. In this first comprehensive
study of the Parr family's political activities, Anthony R.
Carrozza reveals the innermost workings of the Parr dynasty, a
political machine that drove South Texas politics for more than
seventy years and critically influenced the course of the nation.
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