John Sloan (politician)

John Trimmier Sloan Jr. (born June 5, 1846 in Pickens County , South Carolina , † February 28, 1909 in Greensboro , North Carolina ) was an American politician . Between 1903 and 1907 he was lieutenant governor of the state of South Carolina.

Career

John Sloan graduated from high school and then served in the Confederation Army during the Civil War . After a subsequent law degree at the University of South Carolina and his 1868 admission to the bar, he began to work in this profession. At the latest since 1880 he practiced in Columbia , the capital of South Carolina. He was also involved in several businesses and building the Columbia Tramway. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1874 he was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives; in June 1888 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis , on which President Grover Cleveland was nominated for re-election, which was then unsuccessful. He was a member of the South Carolina Senate from 1890 to 1898 . In 1895 he was a delegate to a constitutional convention in his home state.

In 1902, Sloan was elected lieutenant governor of South Carolina alongside Duncan Clinch Heyward . He held this office after a re-election between 1903 and 1907. He was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate. After the end of his time as lieutenant governor, he worked again as a lawyer. He died on February 28, 1909, on a train returning home from a hospitalization in Philadelphia .

Web links

• John Sloan in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John T. Sloan has passed away