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William Pegues Pollock
United States Senator from South Carolina
In office November 6, 1918 – March 4, 1919
Preceded by	Christie Benet
Succeeded by	Nathaniel B. Dial
Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from the Chesterfield County district
In office January 13, 1903 – February 17, 1906
In office November 27, 1894 – February 16, 1898
Personal details
Born	(1870-12-09)December 9, 1870 Cheraw, South Carolina, U.S.
Died	June 2, 1922(1922-06-02) (aged 51) Cheraw, South Carolina, U.S.
Political party	Democratic

William Pegues Pollock (December 9, 1870 – June 2, 1922) was a United States senator from South Carolina.

Born near Cheraw, he attended public and private schools and the University of South Carolina at Columbia. He graduated from the law department of that university in 1891 and served as clerk of the Committee on the District of Columbia in the United States House of Representatives from 1891 to 1893. He was admitted to the bar the latter year and commenced practice in Cheraw. He also engaged in agricultural pursuits, and was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1894 to 1898.

Pollock was a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1900 and was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1902, 1904, and 1906. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Sixty-second Congress, but was elected on November 5, 1918, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Benjamin R. Tillman and served from November 6, 1918, to March 4, 1919. While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on National Banks (Sixty-fifth Congress).

William Pollock resumed the practice of law in Cheraw and died there in 1922; interment was in St. David's Cemetery.

References

• United States Congress. "William P. Pollock (id: P000417)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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Class 2	P. Butler Hunter Pinckney Sumter Taylor W. Smith R. Hayne Calhoun Huger Calhoun Elmore Barnwell Rhett De Saussure Evans A. Hayne Chesnut Robertson M. Butler Tillman Benet Pollock Dial Blease Byrnes Lumpkin Peace Maybank Daniel Thurmond Wofford Thurmond Graham
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