Howard Wallace Pollock (April 11, 1920 – January 9, 2011) was an American politician and

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Representative from

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Biography

Pollock was born in

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to Olga (née Deblanc) and Oscar Tobias Pollock, and grew up in

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. He went to high school in

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and graduated from Perkinston Junior College. He enlisted as a seaman in the

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in 1941 and retired with rank of

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in 1946. During his service in

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, he lost his right forearm to a grenade accident while training in the South Pacific in 1944. He studied

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and at the

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, and then did some post-graduate studies at

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, from which he earned a

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in industrial management. He was a practicing attorney. Pollock served in the Alaska Territorial Legislature from 1953–1955. He later served in the

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from 1961–1963 and 1965–1966; and was elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth and Ninety-first

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es (January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1971). 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

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

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Electoral history

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