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ALLEE, ALFRED YOUNG (1905–1987). Alfred Young Allee, Texas Ranger, the son of
Alonzo W. Allee, was born on September 14, 1905, in La Salle County, Texas. He
was a member of the Texas Rangersqv for thirty-seven years, following in the
footsteps of his father and his grandfather, Alfred Y. Allee I, both of whom also
served in the rangers. Allee's first work in law enforcement was as a special game
warden on the 7D Ranch in Zavala County in 1926. The next year, he became a
Zavala County deputy sheriff. In 1931 he applied to Capt. William W. Sterling to
join the Texas Rangers and was assigned to Capt. Light Townsend's C Company.
His early years were spent preventing smuggling and cattle rustling on the Rio
Grande border. In 1933, however, Allee, like many of the rangers, resigned
following the election of Miriam "Ma" Ferguson as governor. During this period
he served as a deputy sheriff in Beeville. With the election of James Allred as
governor in 1935, most Texas Rangers, including Allee, returned to duty. In 1952
Governor Allan Shivers sent Allee's D Company into San Diego, Texas, to protect
the newly founded Freedom party from molestation by the Duval County political
machine run by George Parrqv. In January 1954 Allee was involved in a scuffle with
Parr in the hallway of the Alice City Courthouse when Parr tried to take a ranger's
gun after a disagreement. The fight ended with Parr sustaining light injuries and
filing attempted murder charges against Allee. Parr later dropped these charges
"for the good of the community."

In April 1963 Allee's company was sent to Crystal City to supervise the city
elections, for which local Hispanics had organized in an attempt to gain
proportional representation in the city government (seeCRYSTAL CITY REVOLTS).
The rangers remained in Crystal City after the election of Los Cinco Candidatos
and the subsequent resignation of the majority of city workers, who were
predominantly Anglo. Allee soon found himself once again the subject of a
lawsuit, this time filed by the new mayor of Crystal City, Juan Cornejo, who
accused the ranger of physically and verbally abusing him. The charges were later
dropped because of a lack of witnesses, and in fact most of the witnesses Cornejo
named stated that Allee did not lay a hand on the mayor. In 1967 Allee and the
rangers were again sent into a racially charged situation, this time to prevent
violence during the Starr County strike by melon pickers. Once on the scene, the
rangers began to enforce the state's antipicketing laws; more than fifty arrests
resulted. Numerous reports began to surface of alleged ranger brutality and use
of excessive force. Two of these cases, the arrests of Rev. Edgar Krueger and
Magdeleno Dimas, drew heavy attention in the media. In June 1967 and
December 1968 congressional subcommittees on civil rights met in Texas and
found that the rangers had used excessive force in their handling of the striking
farmworkers. In 1974 the United States Supreme Court concurred with the
subcommittees and found in favor of the workers in the class-action suit Allee et
al. v. Medrano et al. Allee, the last of the pre-Department of Public Safety rangers,
retired on September 30, 1970. He died of cancer on January 13, 1987, in San
Antonio. He had married Pearl Leach in 1928, and their son, Alfred Young Allee,
Jr., also joined the Texas Rangers.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Charles Schreiner III et al., A Pictorial History of the Texas Rangers (Mountain Home, Texas: Y-O Press,
1969). John Staples Shockley, Chicano Revolt in a Texas Town (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre
Dame Press, 1974). Robert Stephens, Tribute to a Ranger: Captain Alfred Y. Allee, Company D, Texas
Rangers (1968). Vertical Files, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

Norman Youngblood

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