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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Richard E. Sloan |
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Prescott, Arizona , United States |
| Email | None |
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June 22, 1857
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| Died | December 14, 1933
(76 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Thomas Walker
Jun 22, 2009 03:47pm |
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| Info | Richard Sloan was more renowned for his record as a lawyer and a judge than as governor of Arizona, much like his predecessor, Governor Kibbey. He served longer than any other judge in the history of the territory, serving on the Territorial Supreme Court for 17 years. He also has the grand distinction of being the last territorial governor.
He was born on June 22, 1857 in the Town of Morning Sun, Preble County, Ohio to Dr. Richard and Mary Caldwell Sloan. He was educated in public schools and was a graduate from Monmouth College in 1877. He was a reporter for the Rocky Mountain News in Colorado. He graduated from Cincinnati Law School in 1882 and moved to Phoenix thereafter for health reasons. He married Mary Brown Sloan on November 22, 1887. He served as Pinal County Attorney and was a member of council in the Fifteenth Territorial Legislature in January of 1889. He was appointed to the Territorial Supreme Court in October of 1889 and would continue to serve there until February of 1906, the longest service of any one in the territorial period. In 1908 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention. He was appointed to the governorship by William Howard Taft on May 1, 1909.
Assuming that statehood was near, he announced no new elections would be held for the territorial legislature. In Spring 1910 he went to Washington DC to start the creation of an enabling act to establish statehood for Arizona. The enabling act is signed on June 20, 1910. A constitutional Convention meets from October 10 to December 9, 1910. After the convention convenes, there is no more to do for then Governor Sloan, he would not be elected as the first state governor, but the story of the creation of the constitution is a long one.
A provision in the Arizona Constitution that allowed the recall of judges was the determiner in establishing statehood. President Taft gave the one restriction, fearing a populist constitution, that judges were not to be recalled. The controversy almost cost Arizona its statehood. In the end the convention took out the provision and President Taft signed the bill on February 14, 1912. After the constitution was approved and statehood declared the provision to recall judges was replaced and remains today.
After statehood, Richard Sloan was appointed to the First District Court Judge in Arizona, but his appointment is delayed by the US Senate until a new appointment was announced following President Taft's departure and President Wilson's nomination for the new judgeship. Sloan later drafted the Santa Fe Compact dealing with Colorado River Water and later edited a four volume History of Arizona in 1930. Sloan died on December 14, 1933 and is buried in Greenwood Memorial Park.
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