Sam Sloan

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Sam Sloan
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Sloan in 2014
Born
Samuel Howard Sloan

(1944-09-07) September 7, 1944 (age 79)
Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Other namesMohammad Ismail Sloan
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley (dropped out)
Occupations
  • Chess player
  • businessman
Years active1959–present
Organization Ishi Press
Known forWinning a case pro se before the United States Supreme Court
Political party Republican (since 2023)
Other political
affiliations		 Democratic (2014–2023)
Libertarian (2002–2014)
Children3
Website

Samuel Howard Sloan (born September 7, 1944), also known as Mohammad Ismail Sloan, is an American chess player, businessman, perennial candidate and former broker-dealer. In 1978, he won a case pro se before the United States Supreme Court, becoming the last non-lawyer to argue a case in front of the court before it prohibited the practice in 2013. [1] [2] He is also known for running many political campaigns in the state of New York and for President of the United States. [2]

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In 2006, Sloan served a one-year term on the executive board of the United States Chess Federation.

Early life and education

Sloan was born in Richmond, Virginia, and graduated from high school in 1962. [2] He studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he became president of the Sexual Freedom League branch before dropping out. [3] [2] He also participated in the Anti-Vietnam War movement at that time. [4]

Sloan began studying chess at age 7. [2] In 1959, he was the youngest competitor in the National Capital Open Chess Tournament in Washington, D.C. [5] The United States Chess Federation's database reports that he has played in 152 chess tournaments since 1991 and that his highest FIDE rating was 2107 in 1997. [6] When he was young, he attended a series of lectures by Bobby Fischer at the Marshall Chess Club. [2]

Career

Starting in 1968, Sloan worked for two years in the over-the-counter trading department at the Wall Street investment banking firm Hayden, Stone & Co. In 1970, he established Samuel H. Sloan & Company, a registered broker-dealer primarily trading over-the-counter stocks and bonds.[ citation needed ] The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought civil actions against Sloan & Co. starting in 1971, alleging he had failed to maintain adequate books and records, and revoked his broker-dealer registration in 1975. After years of litigation, he prevailed in a case against the SEC at the U.S. Supreme Court in 1978, arguing his case pro se . He submitted a 175-page brief that The New Republic called a "singularly absurd and complicated document" with "far too many obfuscations and legal shenanigans". [2] The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the "tacking" of 10-day summary suspension orders for an indefinite period was an abuse of the SEC's authority and a deprivation of due process. Sloan is the last non-lawyer to argue before the court, which prohibited that practice in 2013. [2] [7] [8] [1]

In the 1980s, Sloan assumed control of Ishi Press, a digital and print-on-demand publishing company. [2]

Sloan spent four years in the United Arab Emirates writing a chess column and running a computer store. [2] In July 2006, he was elected to a one-year term on the executive board of the United States Chess Federation (USCF) after finishing in second place (the first-place finisher received a three-year term). In 2007, he ran for reelection to the board but was unsuccessful, finishing ninth out of 10 candidates.[ citation needed ] He subsequently sued two officers of the board. [9] [10]

Political campaigns

Sloan shortly after his conversion to Islam Haji-ismail-Sloan.jpg
Sloan shortly after his conversion to Islam
Sloan with fellow Chess Player Laura Markarian in Armenia, 1978 Laura Markarian with Sam Sloan, Yerevan Armenia 1978.jpg
Sloan with fellow Chess Player Laura Markarian in Armenia, 1978

Sloan ran for the Libertarian nomination for governor of New York in 2010 against attorney Warren Redlich and former madam Kristin M. Davis. By his own admission, he was not popular in the party and did not expect to win. [11] He lost the nomination to Redlich in a two-way battle, 27 votes to 17, after Davis refused to show up at the convention.[ citation needed ]

In January 2012, Sloan announced his candidacy for the Libertarian Party's 2012 presidential nomination. [12] [13] Gary Johnson won the nomination.

In November 2013, Sloan was on the ballot for the New York City mayoral election, as an independent on the War Veterans line; he received 166 votes (0.02%). [14] [15]

In June 2014, Sloan ran for the Democratic nomination for New York's 15th congressional district against incumbent José E. Serrano. Serrano won, 91% to 9%. Later that summer, he attempted to submit petitions for the 2014 gubernatorial election, one for the Democratic primary (with Nenad Bach as his running mate) and another an "ambush" of the Libertarian Party line similar to the one he attempted in 2010 (with Tom Stevens as the running mate). Both petitions were ruled invalid. [16]

In 2016, Sloan paid $1,000 to enter the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire but was not nominated. [17] He was also a candidate in the 2016 Democratic primary for Congress in New York's 13th congressional district. [18] [19] He received 197 votes (0.46%), placing 8th out of nine candidates. Adriano Espaillat won. [20]

Sloan briefly ran for president again in 2020 as a Democrat. [2] He later ran in the Democratic primary for New York's 14th US congressional district, one of several challengers to incumbent first-term Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but lost with 2.2% of the vote. [21]

COMMITTEE TO ELECT SAM SLOAN
CandidateSam Sloan
Affiliation Republican Party
Website
https://www.samhsloan.com/

Sloan is again running for president in the 2024 election, [22] this time as a Republican. He has qualified to appear only on the New Hampshire primary ballot. [23] Sloan received 7 votes in the New Hampshire Republican Primary.

Personal life

Sloan has married five women. [2] In 1976, he converted to Islam and changed his name to Mohammad Ismail Sloan, though he continued to also use the name Sam Sloan. [2] In 1986, he was accused of kidnapping his daughter. [2] [24] He was convicted of attempted kidnapping in 1992 and served 18 months in a Virginia prison. [9] In 1978, Sloan traveled to Armenia in the Soviet Union, where he met Girls Chess Champion Laura Markarian. He later expressed his desire to marry her and take her to America with him, although she was only 17 years old at the time. [2]

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