lawyer, politician, Congressman, judge, b. Morrisville, N.Y. He was the brother of Itharnar Conkey Sloan (q.v.) He studied law in Morrisville, was admitted to the bar (1842), and practiced law and held local political offices in New York. In 1854 he moved to Wisconsin, settling in Beaver Dam, where he continued his legal and political career. A Republican, he was state assemblyman (1857), served by appointment as judge of the old 3rd judicial circuit (1858-1859), and in 1860 was elected to Congress, and served one term (Mar. 1861-Mar. 1863). Sloan was not a candidate for renomination in 1862, and in 1863 returned to his law practice in Beaver Dam, where he served for several years as Dodge County judge. In 1873 he was elected state attorney general on the reform (coalition) ticket, and served two terms (Jan. 1874-Jan. 1878). As attorney general, Sloan won for the state the test case on the constitutionality of the Potter regulatory act fixing maximum passenger and freight railroad rates. In 1881 Sloan was elected judge of the newly created 13th judicial circuit, was re-elected in 1887 and 1893, and served from Jan., 1882, until his death. In 1886 he presided over the trial of the leaders of the Milwaukee labor rioters involved in the citywide strikes of that year. Biog. Dir. Amer. Cong. (1928); J. R. Berry-man, ed., Bench and Bar of Wis. (2 vols., Chicago, 1898); Beaver Dam Dodge County Citizen, Apr. 11, 1895; WPA MS.

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