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Both Remmel and Britt waged their races against Democrat [[Orval Faubus]]. On one occasion, Pollard visited Faubus's home in Huntsville in Madison Count] in northwestern Arkansas, where he was shown Faubus's impressive display of state newspapers on all aspects of Faubus's political career. Pollard said that Faubus immediately found newspaper articles in which Pollard had criticized his policies and showed them to Pollard in jest. Pollard said that he learned that Faubus had become disillusioned with some of his former political allies who defected in 1974 to  David Hampton Pryor, Faubus's successful party rival in the gubernatorial primary that year.<ref name=statement/>​

Both Remmel and Britt waged their races against Democrat [[Orval Faubus]]. On one occasion, Pollard visited Faubus's home in Huntsville in Madison Count] in northwestern Arkansas, where he was shown Faubus's impressive display of state newspapers on all aspects of Faubus's political career. Pollard said that Faubus immediately found newspaper articles in which Pollard had criticized his policies and showed them to Pollard in jest. Pollard said that he learned that Faubus had become disillusioned with some of his former political allies who defected in 1974 to  David Hampton Pryor, Faubus's successful party rival in the gubernatorial primary that year.<ref name=statement/>​

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In 2010, the city council of Searcy introduced nonpartisan ballots for municipal elections. Pollard supported the change: "It is probably good for the city and for White County. It might weaken the Republican Party in Searcy, but not an appreciative amount."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thelink.harding.edu/index.php/news/1-harding/1229-citizens-vote-using-first-nonpartisan-ballot|title=Janet Orgain, "Citizens vote using first nonpartisan ballot"|publisher=Thelink.harding.edu|accessdate=January 30, 2011}}</ref>​

In 2010, the city council of Searcy introduced nonpartisan ballots for municipal elections. Pollard supported the change: "It is probably good for the city and for White County. It might weaken the Republican Party in Searcy, but not an appreciative amount."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thelink.harding.edu/index.php/news/1-harding/1229-citizens-vote-using-first-nonpartisan-ballot|title=Janet Orgain, "Citizens vote using first nonpartisan ballot"|publisher=Thelink.harding.edu|accessdate=January 30, 2011}}</ref>​

 

==Personal life==​

==Personal life and death==

Pollard was twice married. His first union to the former Sammie Lane Lewis (1930–1980) ended with her death. In 1990, after ten years as a widower, Pollard married a widow, Imogene Stroud Huett (1925-2015), who died eight months after the passing of her husband.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Imogene+Stroud+Huett_Pollard&event=_searcy-white-arkansas-usa_29527&birth=1925|title=Imogene Stroud Huett Pollard|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=June 15, 2019}}</ref>

Pollard was twice married. His first union to the former Sammie Lane Lewis (1930–1980) ended with her death. In 1990, after ten years as a widower, Pollard married a widow, Imogene Stroud Huett (1925-2015), who died eight months after the passing of her husband.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Imogene+Stroud+Huett_Pollard&event=_searcy-white-arkansas-usa_29527&birth=1925|title=Imogene Stroud Huett Pollard|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=June 15, 2019}}</ref>

Pollard had three children from his first marriage, Laura Lane Pollard Roussel (born 1956) and husband, Scott, Paula P. Gray and husband, Bill, and Mark Odell Pollard (born 1964), and wife, Dana. Mark has been a captain for Continental Airlines based in [[Nashville]],  [[Tennessee]]. Pollard has three stepchildren from the second marriage, Jamie Huett and wife Pam, Tommy Huett and wife Becky, and Mary Jane Norman and husband, Tommy.<ref name=obit/>​

Pollard had three children from his first marriage, Laura Lane Pollard Roussel (born 1956) and husband, Scott, Paula P. Gray and husband, Bill, and Mark Odell Pollard (born 1964), and wife, Dana. Mark has been a captain for Continental Airlines based in [[Nashville]],  [[Tennessee]]. Pollard has three stepchildren from the second marriage, Jamie Huett and wife Pam, Tommy Huett and wife Becky, and Mary Jane Norman and husband, Tommy.<ref name=obit/>​

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Pollard died in Searcy at the age of eighty-seven. He is interred along his first wife at White County Memorial Gardens in Searcy.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://hosting-24809.tributes.com/obituary/print/102276822|title=Odell Pollard|publisher=tributes.com|accessdate=March 30, 2015}}</ref> His former law partner Bethune paid tribute:

Pollard died in Searcy at the age of eighty-seven. He is interred along his first wife at White County Memorial Gardens in Searcy.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://hosting-24809.tributes.com/obituary/print/102276822|title=Odell Pollard|publisher=tributes.com|accessdate=March 30, 2015}}</ref> His former law partner Bethune paid tribute:

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