Samuel Sloan (chess player)
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Sam Sloan
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September 7, 1944 Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
| Residence | Morris Heights, Bronx, New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Haji Mohammad Ismail Sloan |
| Occupation | Publisher |
| Known for | Chess |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Anda Baumanis ( m. 1978 - div. 1979) Honzagool (m. 1980) Kayo Kimura (m. 2002 - div. ?) |
| Children | Peter Julius (b. 1978) Mary Rachel (b. 1979) Shamema Honzagool (b. 1981) Michael Rankoth (b. 1988) George Rankoth (b. 1990) Anusha Rankoth (b. 1991) Jessica Vithanage (b. 1988 d. 2010) Sandra Kimura (b. 2001) |
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| Website | http://www.anusha.com/ |
Samuel Howard Sloan (born September 7, 1944) is an American chess player, publisher and political figure based in New York City. In 2006, Sloan served on the Executive Board of the United States Chess Federation. In 2006 Sloan was elected as an officer to the Manhattan Libertarian Party County Committee as Director of Media Relations.
In 1970, Sloan established a registered broker-dealer that traded over-the-counter stocks and bonds. Sloan had no formal legal training but orally argued a case before the Supreme Court after litigating against the Securities and Exchange Commission over policies regarding the trading of . The Court ruled in his favor, 9–0. Sloan is the last non-lawyer to argue before the court.
Between 2010 and 2016 ran unsuccessfully or attempted to run for several other city, state and national government political offices, including for President of the United States.
Sloan was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1944 to attorney Leroy Bayfield Sloan and child psychiatrist Dr. Marjorie Jacobson Sloan. His family later moved to Lynchburg, where he graduated from E.C. Glass High School. Sloan studied chess from an early age. He claims that he was a winner in the Virginia Science Talent Search and that he scored 800 in the Mathematics section of his SAT.
Sloan left Lynchburg in 1962 to study at University of California, Berkeley; he majored in mathematics and later switched to criminology, but he left Berkeley in 1967 and did not graduate. At Berkeley he became one of the leaders of the Anti-War movement and promoted a branch of the Sexual Freedom League. He held more than forty sexually liberal parties at 2545 Benvenue Avenue and 2714 Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley.
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