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Odell Pollard (April 29, 1927 - May 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, for many years and worked to transform Arkansas from Democratic Party domination into two-party state.[4] He was a liberal Republican and a close ally of Winthrop Rockefeller.[1]
He was born in Union Hill, Arkansas. He graduated from University of Arkansas School of Law in 1950.[4]