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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriHenry Moses POLLARD
(1836-1904)
POLLARD, Henry Moses, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Plymouth, Windsor County,
Vt., June 14, 1836; attended the common schools; was graduated from
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1857; moved to Milwaukee,
Wis., where he studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1861;
returned to Vermont and served during the Civil War in the Union
Army as major in the Eighth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers; moved to
Chillicothe, Mo., in 1865 and commenced the practice of law; mayor
in 1874; county attorney in 1876; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection to the Forty-sixth Congress; moved to St.
Louis, Mo., in 1879 and continued the practice of law in that city
until his death on February 24, 1904; interment in Edgewood
Cemetery, Chillicothe, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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