Ernest Mark Pollard (April 15, 1869 – September 24, 1939) was an American Republican Party politician. He was born in

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on April 15, 1869, and graduated from

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in 1893. He farmed near Nehawka until he was elected to the Nebraska State house of representatives in 1896. He served until 1899 and then became president of the Nebraska Republican League in 1900. In 1905 he was elected to the Fifty-ninth United States Congress after the resignation of

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who had been elected to the

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. He was reelected to the

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but failed in his 1908 bid for reelection to the Sixty-first United States Congress. He farmed some and was a delegate to the

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and a member of the Nebraska constitutional convention in 1920 and 1921. He moved to

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and was appointed secretary of the State department of welfare and labor by Nebraska Governor

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in January 1929 serving until January 1931. He died there on September 24, 1939, and is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Nehawka.

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