Birth Date: | 29 April 1927 |
Birth Place: | Union Hill, Arkansas, U.S. |
Office: | Chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party |
Term Start: | 1966 |
Term End: | 1970 |
Death Place: | Searcy, Arkansas, U.S. |
Successor: | Charles T. Bernard |
Predecessor: | John P. Hammerschmidt |
Party: | Republican |
Otherparty: | Democratic |
Alma Mater: | University of Arkansas School of Law |
Odell Pollard (April 29, 1927 – March 12, 2015) was a lawyer and politician in Arkansas. He switched from being a Democrat to becoming a member of the Republican Party.[1] In the 1960s, he chaired the Arkansas Republican Party.[2] In 1967, he addressed the Urban League of Little Rock.[3] He had a law firm in Searcy, Arkansas, and for many years worked to transform Arkansas from a Democratic stronghold into a two-party state.[4] He was a liberal Republican and a close ally of Winthrop Rockefeller.
He was born in Union Hill, Arkansas. He graduated from University of Arkansas School of Law in 1950.[4]