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==Early life==
Pollard was born in [[rural]] Union Hill in Independence County, Arkansas, to Joseph Franklin Pollard (1895–1981) and the former Beulah Scantlin (1893–1977).<ref>Social Security Death Index, Ancestry.com (under pay wall)</ref> He attended a one-room schoolhouse and then graduated from the former Cedar Ridge High School, since Oil Trough High School, located in a community with the unlikely name of[Oil Trough, Arkansas in Independence County.
He attended two years of [[liberal arts]] instruction at the [[University of Arkansas]] at Fayetteville and then entered the [[United States Navy]]. While in the military, he studied engineering subjects at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. He also studied for a time at [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]] but did not receive a bachelor’s degree. Instead, he received a law degree in January 1950 from the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville.
