Howard Pollock

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Howard Wallace Pollock (April 11, 1920 – January 9, 2011)[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] During his service in World War II, he lost his right forearm to a grenade accident while training in the South Pacific in 1944.[4]

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.[5]

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[6]
Year Republican Votes Pct Democrat Votes Pct
1966 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Howard W. Pollock style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" |34,040 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Template:Pct style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Ralph J. Rivers (inc.) style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" |31,867 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Template:Pct
1968 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Howard W. Pollock (inc.) style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" |43,577 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Template:Pct style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |N. J. Begich style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" |36,785 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Template:Pct

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