From "Message From FTRA President Joe Davis" newsletter:
Captain Bob Crowder
R.A. "Bob" Crowder was born in January of 1901 at Minden, Rusk County,
Texas.  After completeing high school, he served three years with the
U.S. Marines, from 1921 through 1925 when he joined the Dallas Police
Department.  In 1930 he was accepted to the first Texas Highway Patrol
School, which was then under the Texas Highway Department.  In 1937,
Bob transferred to the Bureau of Intelligence, Department of Public
Safety, and held a Ranger comission.  The next year, he was
commissioned a Texas Ranger and served in Company B.  Bob was made
Captain of Company C in Lubbock in 1948.  In 1951, he transferred back
to Company B in Dallas.  In 1956, he was made Acting Chief of the
Texas Rangers and moved to Austin.  The next year he was promoted to
Major of Region V in Lubbock.  In 1960, he took a cut in pay and
transferred back to Dallas as Captain of Company B and returned to his
first love, the Texas Rangers.  Captain Crowder retired in 1969 at the
age of 68.  He passed away in 1972.  Captain Crowder not only looked
the part of a Texas Ranger, he performed the part as well, being
involved in many major cases throughout his career.  In 1955, when the
inmates at the Rusk State hopsital for the Criminally Insane rioted
and took a staff member hostage, Captain Crowder entered the hospital
alone; secured the hostage's release; and stopped the riot.  Captain
Crowder was not only highly respected in the law enforcement
community, but by all people he came into contact with throughout his
career.  He was truly one of the most admired and respected Texas
Rangers of his era.  In May, 1982, he was posthumously installed in
the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame.

