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Samuel Howard Sloan (b. September 7, 1944), also known as M. Ismail Sloan, is an American author, chess player and former securities trader. While having no formal legal training, he once orally argued and won a case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. In July 2006, he was elected to the Executive Board of the United States Chess Federation.

He has been married five times and has eight children. He once drove a taxicab in New York City and is involved in organizing chess tournaments.

Biographical highlights

Sloan attended the University of California, Berkeley majoring in mathematics. At the time U.C. Berkeley was a center for student protest during the social unrest of the 1960s. Sloan became the president of the Sexual Freedom League. His book Sex Marchers, co-authored with SFL founder Jefferson Poland, called for sexual emancipation.

After dropping out of UC Berkeley, Sloan worked for two years for the Wall Street Investment Banking firm of Hayden, Stone & Co. in the over-the-counter trading department. In 1970, he established Samuel H. Sloan & Co., a registered broker-dealer primarily trading over-the-counter stocks and bonds. The SEC brought civil actions against Sloan & Co. in 1971-1975 alleging he had failed to maintain adequate books and records. In 1975, the SEC revoked Sloan's broker-dealer registration. After years of litigation, Sloan in 1978 prevailed in the U.S. Supreme Court. Sloan argued the case pro se even though he was not an attorney. The opposing attorney was Harvey Pitt, who was later Chairman of the SEC from 2001 to 2003. Sloan won before the U.S. Supreme Court 9-0. Sloan is the last non-lawyer to argue before the court.

Sloan has written a lexicon of Khowar, a language spoken in Chitral, Pakistan. He writes that his first wife was a native of that region.

Chess

Sam Sloan is a Class A chess player, chess journalist, and member of the Executive Board of the United States Chess Federation (USCF). He was master strength when he played for U.C. Berkeley in the National Collegiate Chess Championship in Toronto in the late 1960's. He claims to have traveled to nearly 80 countries, primarily attending chess tournaments. He has claimed to have "won the World Championship of Chinese Chess in Beijing, China, in 1988." Sloan also claims to have competed in tournaments in Thai (Makrook) and Japanese (Shogi) chess. Sloan is also a longtime and frequent cross-poster to Usenet groups.

USCF Special Election 2006

In July 2006, Sam Sloan was elected to the Executive Board of the USCF. He placed second from a field of five candidates (behind Randall Hough of California) vying for two seats on the board that had been vacated by the resignations of former board members Greg Shahade and Timothy Hanke, resulting in a special election. Sloan ran on an outsider platform, stating that two of the five then-incumbents were former USCF employees and that a third had previously also done paid work for the USCF, and saying the board was supposed to be completely independent from the staff. He advocated a major expansion of scholastic chess, stating that the USCF should establish a program to certify school chess teachers. He also criticized the USCF's recent move from New Windsor, New York to Crossville, Tennessee.

As second-place finisher in the special election, Sloan will serve a one-year term on the board (the first-place finisher will serve a three-year term). Sloan's term of service began in August 2006, after the election was certified by the Board of Delegates at the USCF Delegates Meeting.

At a meeting of the USCF Executive Board on May 19-20, 2007 Sloan advocated an immediate reduction of personnel costs of $80,000 but this was rejected by the board. Sloan did succeed in having a proposed raise for all employees of 3.2% cancelled.

Books

  • Sex Marchers (with Jefferson Poland, eds., Elysium, Inc. 1968) ISBN 0-923891-13-7
  • Khowar English Dictionary (as Mohammad Ismail Sloan, 1981) (published in Pakistan) ISBN 0-923891-15-3
  • Chinese Chess for Beginners (1989) ISBN 0-923891-11-0
  • How to Take over an American Public Company (1992) ISBN 1-881373-01-0
  • The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson (1992) ISBN 4-906574-00-9
  • The Farm Book by Thomas Jefferson with light notes and annotations by Sam Sloan ISBN 0-923891-80-3

References

  1. SEC v. Samuel H. Sloan, 436 US)
  2. Building a Better Advocate, Tony Mauro, The American Lawyer.
  3. According to then-Expert David Forthoffer, who was also a team member, along with Expert Bob Hammie.
  4. at 1'00"
  5. USCF Elections
  6. USCF Board Candidates Statements, "Sam Sloan for USCF Executive Board", http://beta.uschess.org/frontend/magazine_124_28.php
  7. http://www.uschess.org/org/govern/SpecialElection2006.php

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