Henry Moses Pollard

Henry Moses Pollard

Henry Moses Pollard (born June 14, 1836 in Plymouth , Windsor County , Vermont , † February 24, 1904 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1877 and 1879 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Pollard attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1857 Dartmouth College in Hanover ( New Hampshire ). After a subsequent law degree in Milwaukee ( Wisconsin ) and his 1861 admission as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. During the Civil War he was a major in the Union Army . In 1865, Pollard moved to Chillicothe , Missouri, where he practiced as a lawyer. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1874 he was elected mayor of Chillicothe; In 1876 he became a district attorney.

In the congressional elections of 1876 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the tenth constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Rezin A. De Bolt on March 4, 1877 . Since he was defeated by the Democrat Gideon Frank Rothwell in 1878 , he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1879 . After leaving the US House of Representatives, Pollard moved to St. Louis, where he worked as a lawyer. He died there on February 24, 1904.

Web links

• Henry Moses Pollard in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry Moses Pollard in the database of Find a Grave (English)