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He was born on June 22, 1857 on a farm in Preble County, Ohio, United States, the son of Dr. Richard and Mary (Caldwell) Sloan. His ancestors on both sides were of Scotch-Irish origin, and settled first in South Carolina.
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He was born on June 22, 1857 on a farm in Preble County, Ohio, United States, the son of Dr. Richard and Mary (Caldwell) Sloan. His ancestors on both sides were of Scotch-Irish origin, and settled first in South Carolina.
He graduated A. B. at Monmouth College, Illinois, in 1877. He entered the Law School of the Cincinnati College (now University of Cincinnati), where he received the degree of LL. B.
After college he taught in a preparatory school for about a year, meanwhile beginning the study of law in an office at Hamilton, Ohio. He then went to Denver, Colorado, where he worked as a reporter on the Daily Rocky Mountain News while continuing his law studies. From 1879 to 1882 he tried his fortune in the mining regions of Leadville and Breckenridge, Colorado, but in the last-named year returned to his native state.
Planning to practise in the West, he went to San Francisco, but upon the advice of a friend to "try Arizona, " opened an office, with a classmate, at Phoenix, where he was enrolled as a member of the territorial bar in January 1885. After about two years he removed to Florence, distant some seventy-five miles, upon the promise of appointment as district attorney of Pinal County, an office which he held for two years.
In 1888 he was a delegate from Pinal County to the Republican territorial convention, where he was chosen temporary chairman and made the "keynote speech. " Later in the same year he was elected a member of the Territorial Council and served one term, being on several committees and chairman of that on the judiciary.
His most noteworthy service began in October 1889, when he was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison as a judge. He thereupon removed to Tucson and, like his associates, exercised nisi prius as well as appellate jurisdiction. In his appellate court work, his first important opinion was in Cheyney vs. Smith, 1890. In Porter vs. Hughes, he held that the governor's affixing of his signature to an appropriation bill constituted approval of the whole measure, even though he disapproved a specific item.
Friends of the convicted parties thereupon sought Judge Sloan's removal; but President Cleveland not only permitted him to serve the balance of his term but for some eight months thereafter (until June 1894), before he appointed a successor. Sloan then reentered the practice of his profession, at Prescott; but, after three years he was restored to the bench by President McKinley (July 8, 1897), and was twice reappointed by President Theodore Roosevelt. He served in all seventeen years. His first important opinion during his second period was that in Gage vs. McCord.
In 1908 he was elected a delegate to the Republican National Convention, where he secured the adoption of a plank favoring statehood for Arizona. In the following year he was tendered by President Taft the post of governor, which he accepted, qualifying May 1, 1909. In March 1911 he presided at the dedication of the Roosevelt Dam and in February 1912 he surrendered his office to the recently elected governor of the new state.
The remaining years of his life were devoted to professional and literary labors. He died at Phoenix as the result of a fall.
Richard Elihu Sloan served as a judge of the territorial supreme court - the first bona fide resident of Arizona to receive such an appointment, wrote over 150 legal opinions, his preeminent case came when he presided over the trial for the Wham Paymaster Robbery. He was tha last Governor of Arizona Territory, as the resolution admitting Arizona to the Union was signed. He also represented Arizona at the November 1922 conference which created the Colorado River Compact.
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In 1887 he married Mary Brown of Hamilton, by whom he had three children, a son who predeceased his father, and two daughters who survived him.
