In 2006, Sam Sloan served on the executive board of the United States Chess Federation.
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16 Facts About Sam Sloan
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Sam Sloan has run unsuccessfully or attempted to run for several political offices, including President of the United States.
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Sam Sloan was born in Richmond, Virginia and graduated high school in 1962.
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Sam Sloan submitted a 175-page brief that the New Republic described as a "singularly absurd and complicated document" with "far too many obfuscations and legal shenanigans".
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Sam Sloan is the last non-lawyer to argue before the court, which prohibited that practice in 2013.
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Sam Sloan has published several non-fiction works, including The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson, Mafia Moll: The Judith Exner Story, and instructional and analytic pieces for chess and other games.
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Sam Sloan has published several blog posts to his personal website.
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Sam Sloan spent four years in the United Arab Emirates writing a chess column while he was running a computer store.
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In July 2006, Sam Sloan was elected to the Executive Board of the United States Chess Federation for a one-year term after finishing second place .
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Sam Sloan eventually lost the nomination to Redlich in a two-way battle, 27 votes to 17, after Davis refused to show up at the convention.
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In January 2012, Sam Sloan announced his candidacy for the Libertarian Party's 2012 presidential nomination.
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In June 2014, Sloan ran for the Democratic nomination for New York's 15th congressional district against incumbent Jose E Serrano.
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Sam Sloan unsuccessfully attempted to gain the nomination for US president in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
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Sam Sloan unsuccessfully attempted to run for president again in 2020 as a Democrat.
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Sam Sloan later ran in the Democratic primary for the New York's 14th US congressional district, one of several challengers to incumbent first-term Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but lost with 2.
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Sam Sloan was convicted of attempted kidnapping in 1992 and served 18 months in a Virginia prison.
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