Richard Pollard McClain (1890 - 1965) was a doctor, businessman,[1] and state legislator in Ohio. He was born in Nicholasville, Kentucky to Meredith and Ellen McClain. He lived in Cincinnati as a teenager.[2] He studied at Cincinnati High School and Howard University. He married Alice E. Martin in 1918. He worked in Cincinnati.[3]

He served on the city council in 1935 and 1937. He was accused of performing an illegal abortion.[4] He was a Republican.[5]

He was a dentist. He sponsored a bill prohibiting employment discrimination in the public sector.[6]

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  1. Burkett, Randall K.; Burkett, Nancy Hall; Gates (Jr.), Henry Louis (March 8, 1991). Black Biography, 1790-1950: K-Z. Chadwyck-Healey. ISBN 9780898870855 via Google Books.
  2. Smith, Gerald L.; McDaniel, Karen Cotton; Hardin, John A. (August 28, 2015). The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813160672 via Google Books.
  3. "Who's who in Colored America". Who's Who in Colored America Corporation. March 8, 1942 via Google Books.
  4. Company, Johnson Publishing (April 16, 1953). "Jet". Johnson Publishing Company via Google Books.
  5. "Negro Year Book: An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro ... 1947,1952". Negro year Book Publishing Company. March 8, 1937 via Google Books.
  6. Farrington, Joshua D. (September 20, 2016). Black Republicans and the Transformation of the GOP. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812293265 via Google Books.


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