"Attorney General Of Texas" Claude Pollard Signed Album Page For Sale
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"Attorney General Of Texas" Claude Pollard Signed Album Page:
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Up for sale the "Attorney General Texas" Claude Pollard Hand Signed Album Page.
1874 – November 25, 1942) was Attorney
General of Texas from 1927–1929. During his service in public
office he defended laws aimed at the disenfranchisement of black voters. Pollard
was born to Hamilton and Sarah Jane (Davis) Pollard on February 14, 1874. A native of Carthage, Texas, he graduated from one of its public schools.
He became a teacher, but left the job when he entered the University of Texas at
Austin to study for a law degree. Immediately after his
admittance to the Texas Bar in 1895, Pollard was elected Panola County
Attorney, a position he held until 1898. He was appointed United States Attorney by
President William McKinley in
1900. In 1905, he was chosen as assistant Attorney General of Texas, serving
under Attorney General Robert V.
Davidson from 1905 to 1909. In
1909, Pollard became counsel for St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway in Kingsville, Texas, where the railroad had recently run a line
through the King Ranch. With the
arrival of the SLB&M Railway, Kingsville began to grow and citizens sought
to form a new county out of southern Nueces County. Pollard was
one of the men responsible for the formation of Kleberg County, which
mostly consisted of the King Ranch. Even though Pollard had left behind his
teaching career, he remained active in education, serving as regent of South
Texas State Teachers College (now Texas A&I University). In
1916, Pollard went into private practice of law helping to found the Houston, Texas law firm of Vinson, Elkins, Wood and Pollard. Pollard was elected
president of the State Bar of Texas in
1920. In 1926, Pollard secured the Democratic nomination
for Attorney General, defeating James V. Allred narrowly, which meant that his election
in the General Election was practically assured. Upon taking office, Pollard
defended the Texas white primary law in
the United States Supreme
Court case of Nixon v. Herndon. The Texas White Primary Law prohibited
blacks from voting in the Texas Primary. Because of the almost complete control
of the Texas government by Democrats, the primary election was the more
important election to participate in. "Pollard invited the Court to ignore
reality contending that, 'a nominating primary of the Democratic Democratic
Party is not a public election under the constitution of the state'". The
Court found otherwise and struck down the Texas law.Although Pollard was
reelected to his post, he did not complete his second term, choosing instead to
resign in September 1929 so that he could serve the Railway General Managers'
Association of Texas as its counsel.[1] Following his death on November 25, 1942
in Austin, Texas, he was
buried in the Texas State Cemetery.
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