{{Short description|American politician (1920–2011)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Howard Pollock | image = Howard W. Pollock official portrait cropped.png | state = Alaska | district = {{ushr|AK|AL|at-large}} | term_start = January 3, 1967 | term_end = January 3, 1971 | predecessor = Ralph Rivers | successor = Nick Begich Sr. | birth_name = Howard Wallace Pollock | birth_date = {{birth date|1920|4|11}} | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2011|1|9|1920|4|11}} | death_place = Coronado, California, U.S. | party = Republican | education = Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College<br>Santa Clara University<br>University of Houston (JD)<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS)<br>International University Vienna (PhD) | allegiance = {{flag|United States|1912}} | branch = {{flag|United States Navy}} | service_years = 1941–1946 | rank = Lieutenant Commander }} '''Howard Wallace Pollock''' (April 11, 1920 – January 9, 2011)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://newsminer.com/bookmark/10975591-Howard-Pollock-Alaska-s-2nd-congressman-dies-at-90 |title=Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Howard Pollock Alaska s 2nd congressman dies at 90 |accessdate=2011-01-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714174312/http://www.newsminer.com/bookmark/10975591-Howard-Pollock-Alaska-s-2nd-congressman-dies-at-90 |archivedate=2011-07-14 }}</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> {{citation |url= https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7QZ-D8G |title= Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates |website= FamilySearch |accessdate=April 6, 2018 }}</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>{{cite news|work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|title=POLLOCK, Howard Wallace (1920-2011)|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000415}}</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>{{cite news|url=https://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2011/01/18/howard_pollock_congressman_who_loved_adventure_at_90/|title=Howard Pollock, congressman who loved adventure; at 90|date=January 18, 2011}}</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>{{cite web |author1=Jeff Knox |title=The Knox Report: NRA CEO Suspended Without Pay! |url=https://www.firearmsnews.com/editorial/knox-report-nra-ceo/479159 |website=firearmsnews.com |publisher=Outdoor Sportsman Group |access-date=17 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230817132203/https://www.firearmsnews.com/editorial/knox-report-nra-ceo/479159 |archive-date=17 August 2023 |location=Tombstone, AZ |language=en-US |date=July 31, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>
From 1998 until his death in January 2011, Pollock was a resident of Arlington, Virginia.
==Electoral history== {{Incomplete list|date=June 2014}}
{| class="wikitable" style="margin:0.5em ; font-size:95%" |+ Alaska's at-large congressional district: Results 1966–1968<ref name="clerkresults">{{cite web|url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/index.html |title=Election Statistics |accessdate=2008-10-24 |publisher=Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070725184700/http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/index.html |archivedate=2007-07-25 }}</ref> !|Year ! !|Republican !|Votes !|Pct ! !|Democrat !|Votes !|Pct |- |1966 | |{{Party shading/Republican}} |{{nowrap|'''Howard W. Pollock'''}} |{{Party shading/Republican}} align="right" |34,040 |{{Party shading/Republican}} |{{pct|34040|65907|1}} | |{{Party shading/Democratic}} |{{nowrap|Ralph J. Rivers (inc.)}} |{{Party shading/Democratic}} align="right" |31,867 |{{Party shading/Democratic}} |{{pct|31867|65907|1}} |- |1968 | |{{Party shading/Republican}} |{{nowrap|'''Howard W. Pollock (inc.)'''}} |{{Party shading/Republican}} align="right" |43,577 |{{Party shading/Republican}} |{{pct|43577|80362|1}} | |{{Party shading/Democratic}} |{{nowrap|N. J. Begich}} |{{Party shading/Democratic}} align="right" |36,785 |{{Party shading/Democratic}} |{{pct|36785|80362|1}} |}
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== {{CongBio|P000415}} * {{Find a Grave|64114361}} * [http://100years.akleg.gov/bio.php?id=1381 Howard Pollock] at ''100 Years of Alaska's Legislature''
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