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Pollard left the chairmanship in December 1970, and the state executive committee chose Charles Taylor Bernard, Sr. (1927-2015), then a businessman engaged in dry cleaning from the small city of Earle in Cross County in eastern Arkansas. Bernard had been the unsuccessful Republican candidate in 1968 against Democratic [[U.S. Senator]] [[J. William Fulbright]]. When Rockefeller died in 1973, Pollard followed as Republican national committeeman, a post that Rockefeller had first filled in 1961, after the retirement of party veteran [[Wallace Townsend]]. Pollard was national committeeman until 1976, when U.S. Representative Hammerschmidt assumed the position while remaining a member of Congress. Coincidentally, Pollard died only three weeks prior to the passing of Hammerschmidt on April 1, 2015.
Pollard left the chairmanship in December 1970, and the state executive committee chose Charles Taylor Bernard, Sr. (1927-2015), then a businessman engaged in dry cleaning from the small city of Earle in Cross County in eastern Arkansas. Bernard had been the unsuccessful Republican candidate in 1968 against Democratic [[U.S. Senator]] [[J. William Fulbright]]. When Rockefeller died in 1973, Pollard followed as Republican national committeeman, a post that Rockefeller had first filled in 1961, after the retirement of party veteran [[Wallace Townsend]]. Pollard was national committeeman until 1976, when U.S. Representative Hammerschmidt assumed the position while remaining a member of Congress. Coincidentally, Pollard died only three weeks prior to the passing of Hammerschmidt on April 1, 2015.
===Campaign manager for Ken Coon, 1974==
===Campaign manager for Ken Coon, 1974===
In the 1974 gubernatorial election, Pollard was a campaign strategist for Republican nominee Kenneth L. "Ken" Coon, later a [[psychologist]] in Little Rock, who challenged Pryor. Pollard urged owners of nursing homes to support Coon because Pryor had earlier pressed successfully for greater state and national regulation of such facilities: "He demeaned the nursing homes just so he could get national publicity," Pollard said of Pryor.<ref>''The Arkansas Gazette,'' November 3, 6, 1974.</ref>
In the 1974 gubernatorial election, Pollard was a campaign strategist for Republican nominee Kenneth L. "Ken" Coon, later a [[psychologist]] in Little Rock, who challenged Pryor. Pollard urged owners of nursing homes to support Coon because Pryor had earlier pressed successfully for greater state and national regulation of such facilities: "He demeaned the nursing homes just so he could get national publicity," Pollard said of Pryor.<ref>''The Arkansas Gazette,'' November 3, 6, 1974.</ref>