{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = George B. Sloan | image = GeorgeBSloan.jpg | alt = Sloan in 1903 | caption = George B. Sloan (1903) | other_names = | occupation = Politician, businessman, banker | birth_name = George Beale Sloan | birth_place = Oswego, New York | death_place = Oswego, New York | birth_date = {{Birth date|1831|06|20}} | death_date = {{Death-date and age|July 10, 1904|June 20, 1831}} | resting_place = Riverside Cemetery | signature = Signature of George Beale Sloan (1831–1904).png | office1 = Member of the New York State Senate | term_start1 = 1886 | term_end1 = 1891 | constituency1 = 21st District | office2 = Member of the New York State Assembly | term2 = 1874, 1876–1877, 1879 | constituency2 = 1st District }}

'''George Beale Sloan''' (June 20, 1831 – July 10, 1904) was an American businessman, banker and politician.

==Life== George Beale Sloan was born in Oswego, New York, on June 20, 1831.<ref name=Successful>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/americassuccessf02hallrich/page/720/mode/1up |title=America's Successful Men of Affairs: An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography |volume=II |editor-first=Henry |editor-last=Hall |publisher=The New York Tribune Company |pages=721–723 |year=1896 |access-date=2021-12-08 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> From 1864 to 1884, he was co-owner of the firm of "Sloan & Irwin, flour commissioners" which held a large number of business interests. From 1884 until his death, he was President of the Second National Bank of Oswego.

He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Oswego Co., 1st D.) in 1874, 1876, 1877 and 1879, and was Speaker in 1877.

left|thumb|George B. Sloan Jr. (1903)

He was a member of the New York State Senate (21st D.) from 1886 to 1891, sitting in the 109th, 110th, 111th, 112th, 113th and 114th New York State Legislatures.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1889/10/04/100973464.pdf |title=For the State Senate: George B. Sloan Renominated for a Third Successive Term |newspaper=The New York Times |location=Watertown, New York |page=1 |date=1889-10-04 |access-date=2021-12-08}}</ref> He announced his retirement from politics on May 26, 1891.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1891/05/27/103310688.pdf |title=Senator Sloan's Career |newspaper=The New York Times |location=Albany |page=3 |date=1891-05-27 |access-date=2021-12-08}}</ref>

In 1892, as a member of the Committee of the Detroit Deep Water Ways Convention in Washington, D.C., he gave his adverse opinion on the ruinously high import duty on Canadian barley.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/02/01/106082272.pdf |title=The Ruinous Barley Duty |newspaper=The New York Times |location=Washington |page=5 |date=1892-02-01 |access-date=2021-12-08}}</ref>

Sloan was a presidential elector in 1896; and a delegate to the 1900 Republican National Convention.<ref name=Successful/>

He died in Oswego on July 10, 1904, and was buried at Riverside Cemetery.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/07/11/100473004.pdf |title=Death List of a Day: George Beale Sloan |newspaper=The New York Times |location=Oswego, New York |page=7 |date=1904-07-11 |access-date=2021-12-08}}</ref>

His son George Beale Sloan Jr. committed suicide on July 10, 1914 (exactly 10&nbsp;years after the death of his father), by jumping from a concrete bridge over Rye Lake at Kensico, New York.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/07/12/100096986.pdf |title=G. B. Sloan a Suicide |newspaper=The New York Times |page=1 |date=1914-07-12 |access-date=2021-12-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1916/01/26/100186589.pdf |title=Geo. B. Sloan Left Estate of $1,225,970 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=5 |date=1916-01-26 |access-date=2021-12-08}}</ref>

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{{s-start}} {{s-par|us-ny-hs}} {{succession box | before = Daniel G. Fort | title = New York State Assembly <br>Oswego County, 1st District | years = 1874 | after = Alanson S. Page}} {{succession box | before = Alanson S. Page | title = New York State Assembly <br>Oswego County, 1st District | years = 1876–1877 | after = Charles North}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | before = James W. Husted | title = Speaker of the New York State Assembly | years = 1877 | after = James W. Husted}} {{s-par|us-ny-hs}} {{succession box | before = Charles North | title = New York State Assembly <br>Oswego County, 1st District | years = 1879 | after = Patrick W. Cullinan}} {{s-par|us-ny-sen}} {{succession box | before = Frederick Lansing | title = New York State Senate <br>21st District | years = 1886–1891 | after = Joseph Mullin}} {{s-end}}

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