Former US Rep. Bruce Alger (R-TX) dead at 96

[Indy Texas]

http://www.dallasnews.com/obituary-headlines/20150425-bruce-alger-controversial-dallas-congressman-in-50s-and-60s-dies-at-96.ece

Alger was not the first Republican elected to Congress from Texas since Reconstruction, but he was the first "modern" Republican to represent the Lone Star State, along with a brand of reactionary, populist conservatism that was particularly strong in mid-century Dallas and that defined the American Right in ways that are still being felt today. Alger was, in a way, the prehistoric species that would ultimately evolve into the 21st century Tea Party Republican - inflexibly dogmatic, more interested in voting against others' legislation than proposing his own, and keenly aware of the power of inflammatory rhetoric and conspiratorial innuendo in advancing his political agenda.

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[Indy Texas]

Didn't he vote for Civil Rights though, or am I mistaking him for another Texas Republican.

There were two Republicans in Texas's House delegation at that time - Alger and Ed Foreman (guy from West Texas who served one term and later got elected in New Mexico). They both voted against the CRA. John Tower voted against it in the Senate.

George H. W. Bush voted for the Fair Housing Act and some other civil rights-related legislation when he was in Congress but other than him the Texas Republicans elected in that era were very anti-civil rights.