Coke Robert Stevenson (March 20, 1888 – June 28, 1975) was an American politician who served as the 35th governor of Texas from 1941 to 1947. He was the first Texan politician to hold its three highest offices (Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, lieutenant governor, and governor), as well as the only one to do so in the 20th Century. In 1966, Recorded Texas Historic Landmark marker number 5118, honoring Stevenson, was placed on the Kimble County Courthouse grounds in Junction, Texas. Early life Stevenson was born in a log cabin in Mason County, to Robert Milton and Virginia Hurley Stevenson. Although some works submit that Stevenson was named after former Texas Governor Richard Coke, he was in fact named after Methodist Bishop Thomas Coke. Stevenson's parents would go on to name each of their four sons after a prominent Methodist bishop. Stevenson's father, Robert Milton Stevenson, was a surveyor and school teacher who later opened a mercantile store in Junction. As a teenager, Stevenson went into business hauling freight with a six-horse wagon on a seventy-five mile trip between Junction and Brady, a trip that took a week to complete. On these trips he studied bookkeeping correspondence courses, history and government by the light of his nighttime campfires as part of a plan to begin a business or banking career. When Stevenson learned about the opening of the First State Bank in Junction, he applied for a bookkeeping job but was passed over and instead offered a position as a janitor. Hoping for an opportunity to prove himself and move up in the bank later, Stevenson accepted the position and sold his freight and hauling business. Stevenson worked as the bank's janitor until he had the opportunity to fill in for the bookkeeper during an illness, and his capable performance resulted in promotion to the bookkeeper's position. Stevenson was promoted to cashier at age twenty, so he had to be legally declared an adult in order to accept. While cashier, Stevenson began courting the youngest daughter of Junction's town physician, Fay Wright. They were married on Christmas Eve, 1912. Because Stevenson could not afford to construct a home for the newlywed couple, he bought two abandoned houses and demolished them, using the materials from the houses to build a new home of his own during evenings after his work at the bank. The Stevensons had their first