Bruce Alger

Bruce Alger

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.

Read more about Bruce Alger:  Background, Congressional Service (1955–1965), Defeated For Reelection, 1964, Return To Private Life

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