# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruce-alger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:18:33.614Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bruce-alger"
name: "Bruce Alger"
slug: "bruce-alger"
description: "Bruce Reynolds Alger was an American politician, real estate agent and developer, and a 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 raised in Webster Groves, Missouri, a small suburb of St. Louis."
tagline: "American politician (1918-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bruce_Reynolds_Alger.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1918-06-12"
deathDate: "2015-04-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.87
  momentum:             1.149068322981366
  historical:           7.012924
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Alger"
    title: "Bruce Alger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B1"
    title: "بروس ألجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "بروس الجير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A2%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B1"
    title: "بروس آلجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Alger"
    title: "Bruce Alger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Alger"
    title: "Bruce Alger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A2%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B1"
    title: "بروس آلجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Alger"
    title: "Bruce Alger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q991452"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump