{{Short description|American judge}} {{distinguish|text=the Big Brother Australia 2001 contestant of the same name nor Gordon McGregor Sloan, the former Attorney General of British Columbia}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Gordon Sloan | image = Gordon Sloan.jpg | image_size = | caption = | office = 70th Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court | term_start = 1958 | term_end = 1970 | appointer = Robert D. Holmes | predecessor = Randall B. Kester | successor = Dean F. Bryson | birth_date = {{birth date|1911|4|9}} | birth_place = Hoxie, Kansas, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2006|8|23|1911|4|9}} | death_place = Wilsonville, Oregon, U.S. | party = | spouse = Geneve Tipton }} '''Gordon Wright Sloan''' (April 9, 1911 – August 23, 2006) was an American attorney and judge. He was the 70th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court in the United States. He previously served on the International Tuna Commission, and later the Kansas native was Oregon’s first senior judge.
==Early life== Gordon Sloan was born to Edward R. Sloan and Julie Wright Sloan in Hoxie, Kansas, on April 9, 1911.<ref name=obit>[http://legacy.com/cjonline/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=19214542 Obituaries: 9/15/2006.] Topeka Capital-Journal. Retrieved on July 5, 2007.</ref> His father was a judge for the Kansas Supreme Court who graduated from Washburn University School of Law five years before Gordon’s birth.<ref name=obit/><ref name=wash>[http://www.washburnlaw.edu/alumni/washburnlawyer/45-1/42-43.pdf In Memoriam.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927201649/http://www.washburnlaw.edu/alumni/washburnlawyer/45-1/42-43.pdf |date=2007-09-27 }} ''The Washburn Lawyer'', Winter 2006. Retrieved on February 1, 2008.</ref> Soon after Gordon’s birth, the family relocated to Holton, Kansas, where Gordon attended the local public schools.<ref name=obit/> After graduating from high school in Holton in 1929 he went on to the University of Kansas where he graduated in 1933 as president of his senior class.<ref name=obit/> Gordon then went on to law school at Washburn where his brother Eldon graduated in 1933.<ref name=wash/> Gordon graduated in 1935.<ref name=wash/>
==Legal career== After law school Gordon Sloan began working as an assistant district attorney in the city of Topeka, Kansas, until 1938.<ref name=obit/> That year he married Geneve Tipton and they moved to Oregon, settling in Astoria along the Oregon Coast.<ref name=obit/> 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.<ref name=OSC>[https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/Pages/state/judicial/supreme.aspx Oregon Blue Book: Supreme Court Justices of Oregon.] Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved on February 1, 2008.</ref><ref name=gov>[https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/Pages/records/governors_guides.aspx Oregon State Archives: Governor's Records Guides.] Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved on February 1, 2008.</ref> Gordon then won election to a full six-year term later in 1958. In 1964 he won re-election after running unopposed.<ref>[http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/spju.html Oregon: State Supreme Court.] Political Graveyard. Retrieved on February 1, 2008.</ref> Sloan resigned from the court on October 1, 1970.<ref name=OSC/> Earlier in the year Dean F. Bryson defeated Sloan in his re-election bid.<ref>The 1970 Elections in the West, The 1970 Election in Oregon, L. Harmon Zeigler; Barbara Leigh Smith, ''The Western Political Quarterly'', Vol. 24, No. 2. (Jun., 1971), pp. 325-338.</ref>
After retiring from the bench, Gordon Sloan was appointed as the first senior judge in the state of Oregon’s history.<ref name=wash/> He was also appointed to the International Tuna Commission by United States President Harry Truman.<ref name=obit/>
==Family== Gordon and his wife Geneve had two children together, Bill and Sally.<ref name=obit/> In addition to his brother, Gordon had a sister named Clarice.<ref name=obit/> Gordon Sloan died on August 23, 2006, at the age of 95 in Wilsonville, Oregon.<ref name=obit/>
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070929144930/http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/s3/sloan_edward_r.html Biography of Edward Sloan]
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