Howard Pollock

Howard Wallace Pollock (April 11, 1920 – January 9, 2011)[1] was an American politician and Republican Representative from Alaska.

He enlisted as a seaman in the United States Navy in 1941 and retired with rank of lieutenant commander in 1946.

[3] During his service in World War II, he lost his right forearm to a grenade accident while training in the South Pacific in 1944.

He later served in the Alaska Senate from 1961 to 1963 and 1965–1966; and was elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth and Ninety-first Congresses (January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1971), being the first Republican elected to Congress from Alaska.

Pollock was also a past president of the National Rifle Association of America.