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4521.863 - 4548.303 Steven Monticelli

For much of the 20th century, Dallas had built up a reputation as a clean, dull, modern, and efficiently run city. By the 1950s, however, it had also acquired a reputation as the capital of crackpots and conspiracy theorists, a development that historian Edward H. Miller would describe in his book, Nut Country. In 1954, Dallas elected a far-right House representative, Republican Bruce Alger.