injunction stayed, and his ruling was upheld by the Supreme Court. Retirement from politics After the loss to Johnson, Stevenson retired to Junction. Disenchanted with the Democratic Party, he supported Republican Jack Porter against Johnson in the general election and continued to support Republicans for the rest of his life, including John G. Tower for the Senate and Richard M. Nixon and Barry Goldwater for the presidency. In 1964, Stevenson met at his ranch with the Republican gubernatorial nominee Jack Crichton of Dallas. He did not specifically endorse Crichton over John B. Connally, who had worked for Johnson against Stevenson in the disputed 1948 Democratic primary, but meeting with Crichton was seen as a sign of Stevenson's support. Personal life and death On December 24, 1912, Stevenson married Fay Wright. The couple had one son, Coke Stevenson Jr. who was born in 1913. His wife Fay died on January 3, 1942, shortly after he became governor. On January 16, 1954, Stevenson married Marguerite King Heap. Marguerite had been married to Gordon Marshall Heap, who died in action during World War II. Gordon and Marguerite Heap were the parents of a son, Dennis. Marguerite and Stevenson were the parents of a daughter, Jane Stevenson Murr Chandler. Marguerite died March 24, 2010, in Ozona, Texas. Stevenson died on June 28, 1975, at Shannon Memorial Hospital in San Angelo, Texas. He was buried at the Stevenson Family Ranch in Telegraph. Historiography Stevenson's character became a subject of historical discussion after the publication of Means of Ascent, the second volume of Robert Caro's best-selling biography of Lyndon Johnson, which covers the disputed 1948 election. Caro portrayed Stevenson as an honorable statesman and reluctant office-seeker, in contrast to the venal and intensely ambitious Johnson. According to Johnson biographer Robert Dallek, "Coke Stevenson was a terribly reactionary man. First of all, on civil rights, in 1942, a black Texan was lynched in Texarkana and Stevenson gave very little public response against this. And when he was asked privately about it, his comment was -- 'You know,' he said, 'these Negroes sometimes do things which provoke whites to such violence.'" In the April 26, 1990, issue of the New York Review of Books, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills criticized Caro's characterization of the former Texas governor as anti-corrupt and claimed that in his gubernatorial campaigns, Stevenson had also likely forged a significant number of votes in the