Odell Pollard
| Odell Pollard | |
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Attorney Odell Pollard in undated photo
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| Arkansas Republican Party State Chairman | |
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In office December 10, 1966 – December 1970 |
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| Preceded by | John Paul Hammerschmidt |
| Succeeded by | Charles T. Bernard |
| Republican National Committeeman from Arkansas | |
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In office February 1973 – 1976 |
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| Preceded by | Winthrop Rockefeller |
| Succeeded by | John Paul Hammerschmidt |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
April 29, 1927 Union Hill Independence County Arkansas, USA |
| Died | March 12, 2015 (aged 87) Searcy, White County Arkansas |
| Resting place | White County Memorial Gardens in Searcy |
| Spouse(s) |
(1) Sammy Lane Lewis Pollard (died 1980) |
| Children |
Laura P. Roussel |
| Parents | Joseph Franklin and Beulah Scantlin Pollard |
| Residence |
Searcy, White County Arkansas |
| Alma mater |
Oil Trough (Arkansas) High School |
| Occupation | Attorney |
| Religion | United Methodist |
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(1) Pollard never sought elected office himself but was a guiding force of the Arkansas Republican Party during the gubernatorial years of Winthrop Rockefeller. (2) Pollard’s former law partner, Edwin R. Bethune, was later a member of the United States House of Representatives and thereafter the chairman of the Arkansas GOP. |
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(1) Sammy Lane Lewis Pollard (died 1980)
Laura P. Roussel
Paula P. Gray
Mark Odell Pollard
Stepchildren:
Jamie Huett
Tommy Huett
Oil Trough (Arkansas) High School
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Mississippi College
Tulane University
(1) Pollard never sought elected office himself but was a guiding force of the Arkansas Republican Party during the gubernatorial years of Winthrop Rockefeller.
Odell Pollard (April 29, 1927 – March 12, 2015) was an attorney in Searcy, the county seat of White County in central Arkansas, who was a pioneer in the revitalization of the Arkansas Republican Party.
Pollard was born in rural Union Hill in Independence County, Arkansas, to Joseph Franklin Pollard (1895–1981) and the former Beulah Scantlin (1893–1977). He attended a one-room school and then graduated from Oil Trough High School in a community with the unlikely name of Oil Trough in Independence County. He attended two years of liberal arts instruction at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and then entered the United States Navy. While in the military, he studied engineering subjects at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. He also studied for a time at Tulane University in New Orleans but did not receive a bachelor’s degree. Instead he received a law degree in January 1950 from the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville. On April 29, 1950, his 23rd birthday, he began a 55-year law practice in Searcy. In his later years, he specialized in estate planning,insurance defense, and product failure issues.
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