Claude Pollard

Claude Pollard (February 14, 1874 – November 25, 1942) was the attorney general of Texas from 1927 to 1929. During his service in public office he defended laws aimed at the disenfranchisement of black voters.

Early life Pollard was born to Hamilton and Sarah Jane (Davis) Pollard on February 14, 1874.

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). 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. Following his death on November 25, 1942 in Austin, Texas, he was buried in the Texas State Cemetery.