Bruce Alger Politician

Bruce Reynolds Alger (born June 12, 1918) is an American politician and a former Republican U.S. representative from Texas, the first to have represented a Dallas district since Reconstruction. He served from 1955 until 1965. Though born in Dallas, Alger was reared in Webster Groves, Missouri, a small suburb of St. Louis, Missouri.

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Bruce Alger
Birth dateJune 12, 1918
Birth place
Texas , Dallas

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Politician

military branch
United States Army
party
Republican Party (United States)
region
Texas's 5th congressional district
service start1941
service end1945
successor
Earle Cabell

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Bruce Alger on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://dallaslibrary.org/CTX/archives/MA83-11.html
  2. http://karws.gso.uri.edu/JFK/history/wc_period/Pre-WCR_reactions_to_assassination/Pre-WCR_reactions_by_the_left/Tussle_in_Texas/Tussle_in_Texas.html
  3. http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexandre-allee.html
  4. http://www.dallashistory.org/cgi-bin/webbbs_config.pl?read=7682
  5. http://www.time.com/time/archive/printout/0,23657,868078,00.html
  6. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/12/AR2009081202576.html