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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—WisconsinAndrew Scott SLOAN
(1820-1895)
SLOAN, Andrew Scott,
(brother of Ithamar Conkey Sloan), a Representative from Wisconsin;
born in Morrisville, Madison County, N.Y., June 12, 1820; attended
the public schools and Morrisville Academy; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced practice in Morrisville,
N.Y.; clerk of the Madison County Court 1847-1849; moved to
Wisconsin in 1854 and settled at Beaver Dam, Dodge County, where he
continued the practice of law; member of the State assembly in
1857; mayor of Beaver Dam in 1857, 1858, and again in 1879;
appointed in 1858 as judge of the circuit court for the third
district; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress
(March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); was not a candidate for renomination
in 1862; resumed the practice of law; unsuccessful candidate of the
Union Party for election in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress;
clerk of the United States District Court for Wisconsin 1864-1866;
judge of the Dodge County Court 1868-1874; attorney general of
Wisconsin 1874-1878; judge of the circuit court for the thirteenth
judicial district from January 1882 until his death; died at Beaver
Dam, Wis., on April 8, 1895; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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