1. Gordon Wright Sloan was an American attorney and judge.
10 Facts About Gordon Sloan
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Gordon Sloan was the 70th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court in the United States.
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Gordon Sloan previously served on the International Tuna Commission, and later the Kansas native was Oregon's first senior judge.
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Gordon Sloan was born to Edward R Sloan and Julie Wright Sloan in Hoxie, Kansas, on April 9,1911.
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Gordon Sloan's father was a judge for the Kansas Supreme Court who graduated from Washburn University School of Law five years before Gordon's birth.
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Gordon Sloan then went on to law school at Washburn where his brother Eldon graduated in 1933.
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On March 1,1958, Sloan was appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court to replace Randall B Kester by Oregon Governor Robert D Holmes after Kester resigned from the court.
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Gordon Sloan then won election to a full six-year term later in 1958.
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Gordon Sloan was appointed to the International Tuna Commission by United States President Harry Truman.
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Gordon Sloan died on August 23,2006, at the age of 95 in Wilsonville, Oregon.