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Curtis Pollard
Louisiana reconstruction era American politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Curtis Pollard was a minister, farmer, store keeper and state legislator who served in the Louisiana State Senate during the Reconstruction era.[1]
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Pollard was born in Virginia and in the 1870 United States census Pollard was listed as being aged 63.[2] He was a Baptist preacher who travelled to Madison Parish, Louisiana in 1864 to start a farm.[2] He was successful at farming and obtained recognition in the local community leading to his selection as convention delegate and then his senatorial nomination.[2]
He was a delegate to the Louisiana constitutional conventions in 1867[3] and 1868 representing Franklin Parish and Madison Parish and in 1867 he served on the Committee on the Executive Department.[2][1]
Pollard was nominated to run for the state senate by the Republicans[4] and was elected to the Louisiana State Senate for the 1868 to 1870 session.[1] He was almost the nomination for the United States senator for Louisiana which he lost to Oscar James Dunn after interrupting his own potential nominator.[5] At the time Pollard was described as "a black man, uncompromisingly and a Republican equally uncompromising".[5] In his first senatorial session he served on a Committee for Auditing and Supervising the Expenses of the Senate as well as one for charitable and public institutions.[2]
For the 1870 to 1872 senatorial session he lost the nomination to William L. McMillen[6] but Pollard decided to run as an independent Republican candidate,[7] but lost to McMillen. He was living in Delta, Louisiana at the time.[8]
Pollard was then again elected to serve in the Louisiana State Senate in 1872 representing the 17th senatorial district[9] and he served until 1876.[1]
Pollard was a partner in the Mississippi River Packet Company which was a black-owned enterprise.[1] He had also been a parish police jury and ran a grocery store until 1872.[1] He was a founder of the Bank of Delta in February 1874.[10]
He left his wife and children unwillingly when he was forced by armed men onto a steamboat in 1879 whilst helping emigrants leave to Kansas.[1]
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