Edwin Taylor Pollock was a career officer in the U.S. Navy. He served in the Spanish–American War and in World War I. He was the eighth Naval Governor of American Samoa. He died of a heart attack at the age of 69.
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Edwin Taylor Pollock was a career officer in the U.S. Navy. He served in the Spanish–American War and in World War I. He was the eighth Naval Governor of American Samoa and then the superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory. In 1916, he briefly commanded USS Salem for a world-record setting wireless experiment. In 1917, he won a race against a fellow officer to receive the US Virgin Islands from Denmark, and served as the territory’s first acting governor. His name was often abbreviated using initials: E. T. Pollock. He died of a heart attack at the age of 69. He is buried in Mount Gilead, Ohio. He married Beatrice E. Law Hale on December 5, 1900. He had a son, Edwin, and a daughter, Beatrice T. Pollock, who died of cancer in 2002. He also had a grandson, Edwin Pollock Jr., who served as a Navy officer from 1966 to 1973. He has a granddaughter, Victoria, who was a U.N. special envoy to Great Britain in the 1980s. He wrote a book about his time in the Navy, “Edwin Pollock: A Sailor’s Life,” which was published in 1987.
He later died of natural causes. He will be buried in Ohio, along with his wife Beatrice Hale, his daughter, and son-in-law, Edward Pollock Sr. The couple had three children, Edwin and Beatrice Pollock III, and one daughter, Victoria Pollock-Smith, who is also a former Navy officer. The last of the Pollock family to die, he was buried in New York City, New York, on December 11, 1998. He survived by his wife and two children, Edna Pollock and Edward Pollocks, Jr., and his son, William Pollock II, who later became a naval officer. His great-great-grandson, David Pollock is a United States senator from New York State. His son, David, is a former United States Navy officer who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. His grandson, Edwin Pollocks Jr., is a retired Rear Admiral of the Navy and served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and was a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Second World War.
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