Charles Henry Sloan

Charles Henry Sloan ( born 2 May 1863 in Monticello, Jones County, Iowa, † June 2, 1946 in Geneva, Nebraska ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1919, and again from 1929 to 1931, he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Life

Charles Sloan attended the public schools of his home and then to 1884 the Iowa State Agricultural College in Ames. In the same year he moved to Fairmont, Nebraska, where he had the supervision of the public schools 1884-1887. At the same time he studied law. After his 1887 was admitted to the bar he began in Fairmont to work in his new profession. In 1891 he moved to Geneva in Nebraska, where he also worked as a lawyer. He was also director of the Geneva State Bank. Between 1890 and 1894, Sloan was district attorney in Fillmore County.

Political career

As a member of the Republican Party Sloan sat from 1894 to 1896 in the Senate of Nebraska. In 1903 he was chairman of the Congress of the Republican of Nebraska. In 1910 he was elected for the fourth district of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he Edmund H. Hinshaw replaced on March 4, 1911. After he was re-elected in each of the following three congressional elections, he could implement his mandate in Congress until March 3, 1919. In 1918 he gave up a renewed candidacy.

In 1928 he ran again successfully for the House of Representatives, in which he was able to complete as the successor of John N. Norton between 4 March 1929 and 3 March 1931, further legislative period. In the elections of 1930 he lost his predecessor Norton. Thereupon Charles Sloan withdrew from politics. He again worked as a lawyer and banker in Geneva. There he died in 1946.