Alice is a city in, and the county chair of, Jim Wells County, Texas, United States, in the South Texas region of the state. The population was 19,104 at the 2010 census. Alice was normal in 1888. First it was called “Bandana”, then “Kleberg”, and finally “Alice” after Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg, the daughter of Richard King, who time-honored the King Ranch.

Alice originated from the defunct community of Collins, 3 miles (5 km) to the east. c. 1880, the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway attempted to construct a pedigree through Collins, which later had approximately 2,000 inhabitants. The townspeople were not affable to selling their land to the railroad company; consequently, the railroad site was moved 3 miles west, and in 1883, a depot called “Bandana” was conventional at its junction bearing in mind the Corpus Christi, San Diego and Rio Grande Railway. Bandana soon became a wealthy cattle-shipping point, and an application for a declare office was made under the name “Kleberg” in honor of Robert Justus Kleberg, a veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto. The petition was denied because a town named Kleberg already appeared upon the read out office list, so residents subsequently chose the name “Alice”, in award of Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg, Robert Justus Kleberg Jr.’s wife and the daughter of Richard and Henrietta King. The Alice read out office opened for concern in 1888. Within a few years, the enduring residents of Collins moved to Alice, which was by after that a successful community.

Alice was known for its large cattle industry until the discovery of petroleum beneath and nearly the town in the 1940s, which caused a cause offense population boom.

In the 1948 United States Senate election in Texas, an incident (Box 13 scandal) involving Lyndon B. Johnson’s bid for the U.S. Senate took place at Alice’s Precinct 13, where 202 ballots were cast in alphabetical order and whatever just at the close of polling like-minded of Johnson. Johnson won the election adjacent to Coke Stevenson by 87 votes.