Charles Henry Sloan (May 2, 1863 – June 2, 1946) was an American Republican Party politician.

Biography

Born in

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on May 2, 1863, he graduated from Iowa State Agricultural College (now

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) at

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in 1884. He moved to

Fairmont, Nebraska Fairmont is a village in Fillmore County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 602 at the 2020 census. History Fairmont was platted in 1871 when the Burlington & Quincy Railroad was extended to that point. The name was chosen to conform ...

and became the city schools superintendent from 1884 to 1887. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1887. He started practice in Fairmont but then moved to

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in 1891. He became the director of the Geneva State Bank and then the prosecuting attorney of Fillmore County from 1890 to 1894. He was elected to the

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from 1894 to 1896. He was the chairman of the Republican State convention in 1903. Then he was elected to the sixty-second congress and the three succeeding congress as a Republican (March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1919). He voted on April 5, 1917, against declaring war on Germany. He didn't run in 1918, but ran again for the 71st Congress and won, serving from March 4, 1929, to March 3, 1931. He ran and lost in 1930, resuming practice of law in Geneva. He also did some banking. He died in Geneva on June 2, 1946, and is buried in the Geneva Cemetery.

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