Ithamar Sloan

Ithamar Conkey Sloan ( born May 9, 1822 in Morrisville, Madison County, New York, † December 24, 1898 in Janesville, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1863 and 1867 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ithamar Sloan was the younger brother of A. Scott Sloan (1820-1895), who was also of 1861-1863 the state of Wisconsin in Congress. He attended the common schools. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1848 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession. In 1854 he moved his office and his residence to Janesville in Wisconsin. From 1858 to 1862 he was district attorney in Rock County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republicans launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1862 he was in the second electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Walter D. McIndoe took on March 4, 1863, who moved into the sixth district. After a re-election in 1864 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1867 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the civil war and its consequences. Since 1865 the work of the Congress suffered from the conflict between the Republican Party and President Andrew Johnson. In 1865, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted.

1875 Ithamar Sloan moved to Madison, where he was Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Wisconsin. Between 1874 and 1879 he was associate legal advisor to the state government of Wisconsin. He died on December 24, 1898 in Janesville and was also buried there.

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