# Gordon Sloan > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Gordon_Sloan > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Gordon_Sloan.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Sloan > Source revision: 1350944730 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American judge}} {{distinguish|text=the [Big Brother Australia 2001](/source/Big_Brother_Australia_2001) contestant of the same name nor [Gordon McGregor Sloan](/source/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](/source/Oregon_Supreme_Court) | term_start = 1958 | term_end = 1970 | appointer = [Robert D. Holmes](/source/Robert_D._Holmes) | predecessor = [Randall B. Kester](/source/Randall_B._Kester) | successor = [Dean F. Bryson](/source/Dean_F._Bryson) | birth_date = {{birth date|1911|4|9}} | birth_place = [Hoxie, Kansas](/source/Hoxie%2C_Kansas), U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2006|8|23|1911|4|9}} | death_place = [Wilsonville, Oregon](/source/Wilsonville%2C_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](/source/Oregon_Supreme_Court) in the [United States](/source/United_States). He previously served on the International Tuna Commission, and later the [Kansas](/source/Kansas) native was [Oregon](/source/Oregon)’s first senior judge. ==Early life== Gordon Sloan was born to [Edward R. Sloan](/source/Edward_R._Sloan) and Julie Wright Sloan in [Hoxie, Kansas](/source/Hoxie%2C_Kansas), on April 9, 1911.[http://legacy.com/cjonline/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=19214542 Obituaries: 9/15/2006.] Topeka Capital-Journal. Retrieved on July 5, 2007. His father was a judge for the [Kansas Supreme Court](/source/Kansas_Supreme_Court) who graduated from [Washburn University School of Law](/source/Washburn_University_School_of_Law) five years before Gordon’s birth.[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. Soon after Gordon’s birth, the family relocated to [Holton, Kansas](/source/Holton%2C_Kansas), where Gordon attended the local public schools. After graduating from high school in Holton in 1929 he went on to the [University of Kansas](/source/University_of_Kansas) where he graduated in 1933 as president of his senior class. Gordon then went on to law school at Washburn where his brother Eldon graduated in 1933. Gordon graduated in 1935. ==Legal career== After law school Gordon Sloan began working as an assistant district attorney in the city of [Topeka, Kansas](/source/Topeka%2C_Kansas), until 1938. That year he married Geneve Tipton and they moved to [Oregon](/source/Oregon), settling in [Astoria](/source/Astoria%2C_Oregon) along the [Oregon Coast](/source/Oregon_Coast). On March 1, 1958, Sloan was appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court to replace [Randall B. Kester](/source/Randall_B._Kester) by Oregon Governor [Robert D. Holmes](/source/Robert_D._Holmes) after Kester resigned from the court.[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.[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. Gordon then won election to a full six-year term later in 1958. In 1964 he won re-election after running unopposed.[http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/spju.html Oregon: State Supreme Court.] Political Graveyard. Retrieved on February 1, 2008. Sloan resigned from the court on October 1, 1970. Earlier in the year [Dean F. Bryson](/source/Dean_F._Bryson) defeated Sloan in his re-election bid.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. After retiring from the bench, Gordon Sloan was appointed as the first senior judge in the state of Oregon’s history. He was also appointed to the International Tuna Commission by United States President [Harry Truman](/source/Harry_Truman). ==Family== Gordon and his wife Geneve had two children together, Bill and Sally. In addition to his brother, Gordon had a sister named Clarice. Gordon Sloan died on August 23, 2006, at the age of 95 in [Wilsonville, Oregon](/source/Wilsonville%2C_Oregon). ==References== {{Reflist}} ==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] {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sloan, Gordon Wright}} Category:1911 births Category:2006 deaths Category:Justices of the Oregon Supreme Court Category:University of Kansas alumni Category:Washburn University School of Law alumni Category:Politicians from Astoria, Oregon Category:People from Wilsonville, Oregon Category:People from Hoxie, Kansas Category:20th-century Oregon state court judges Category:People from Holton, Kansas --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Gordon Sloan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Sloan) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Sloan?action=history)). 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