William P. Pollock

William P. Pollock

William Pegues Pollock (born December 9, 1870 in Cheraw , South Carolina , †  June 2, 1922 in Cheraw) was an American politician who represented the state of South Carolina in the US Senate .

William Pollock received his education first in public and private schools before he attended the University of South Carolina at Columbia , where he graduated from law school in 1891. He then worked as the secretary of a congressional committee in Washington, DC until he was inducted into the bar in 1893 and began practicing in his hometown of Cheraw. He also worked as a farmer.

His first political mandate he held between 1894 and 1898 as a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina ; in 1902, 1904 and 1906 he was re-elected to this Chamber of Parliament. In the presidential election in 1900 he was a member of the Electoral College for the Democrats , which did not elect William Jennings Bryan , who was victorious in South Carolina , but again the Republican incumbent William McKinley as US President .

In 1910, Pollock applied for election to the US House of Representatives in vain. He was successful for it in the candidacy for the US Senate on November 5, 1918, when he won the election to succeed the late Benjamin Tillman . He took up his mandate the following day and remained in Congress until March 3, 1919 . During this time he was chairman of the Committee on National Banks . After his departure from the Senate, he worked again as a lawyer in Cheraw.

Web links

• William P. Pollock in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William P. Pollock in the database of Find a Grave (English)