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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