William P. Pollock

William Pegues Pollock ( born December 9, 1870 in Cheraw, South Carolina, † June 2, 1922 in Cheraw ) was an American politician who represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. Senate.

William Pollock was educated first at public and private schools, before he attended the University of South Carolina in Columbia, where in 1891 graduated from the Faculty of Law. He then worked as a secretary of a Congress Committee in Washington until he was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in his hometown of Cheraw. He also worked as a farmer.

He served 1894-1898 as a deputy in the House of Representatives of South Carolina His first political mandate; in the years 1902, 1904 and 1906 he was re-elected to this Parliament each chamber. In the presidential elections in 1900, he was one of the Democrats on the Electoral College, but not the South Carolina victorious William Jennings Bryan, but again the Republican incumbent William McKinley as U.S. president chose.

In 1910, Pollock applied unsuccessfully for election to the U.S. House of Representatives. He successfully had it in the running for the U.S. Senate on November 5, 1918, when he won the election to succeed the late Benjamin Tillman. He took its mandate from the following day and remained until March 3, 1919 at the Congress. During this time he was chairman of the Banking Committee ( Committee on National Banks). After his retirement from the Senate, he worked again as a lawyer in Cheraw.