Howard Pollock

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox officeholder Howard Wallace Pollock (April 11, 1920 – January 9, 2011)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> was an American politician and Republican Representative from Alaska.

Biography

Pollock was born in Chicago to Olga (née Deblanc) and Oscar Tobias Pollock, and grew up in New Orleans.<ref> Template:Citation</ref> He went to high school in Perkinston, Mississippi and graduated from Perkinston Junior College. He enlisted as a seaman in the United States Navy in 1941 and retired with rank of lieutenant commander in 1946.<ref name=bio-directory>Template:Cite news</ref> During his service in World War II, he lost his right forearm to a grenade accident while training in the South Pacific in 1944.<ref name=bostoncom>Template:Cite news</ref>

He studied law at Santa Clara University School of Law and at the University of Houston, and then did some post-graduate studies at MIT, from which he earned a M.S. in industrial management. He was a practicing attorney.

Pollock served in the Alaska Territorial Legislature from 1953 to 1955. He later served in the Alaska Senate from 1961 to 1963 and 1965–1966; and was elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth and Ninety-first Congresses (January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1971), being the first Republican elected to Congress from Alaska. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress, but rather was an unsuccessful candidate for Republican nomination for Governor of Alaska. Pollock was also a past president of the National Rifle Association of America.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

From 1998 until his death in January 2011, Pollock was a resident of Arlington, Virginia.

Electoral history

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Alaska's at-large congressional district: Results 1966–1968<ref name="clerkresults">Template:Cite web</ref>

Year		Republican	Votes	Pct		Democrat	Votes	Pct
1966		Template:Party shading/Republican |Template:Nowrap	Template:Party shading/Republican align="right" |34,040	Template:Party shading/Republican |Template:Pct		Template:Party shading/Democratic |Template:Nowrap	Template:Party shading/Democratic align="right" |31,867	Template:Party shading/Democratic |Template:Pct
1968		Template:Party shading/Republican |Template:Nowrap	Template:Party shading/Republican align="right" |43,577	Template:Party shading/Republican |Template:Pct		Template:Party shading/Democratic |Template:Nowrap	Template:Party shading/Democratic align="right" |36,785	Template:Party shading/Democratic |Template:Pct

External links

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• Howard Pollock at 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature

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